Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 82 years old
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

male, 54 years old
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief...
Rollo Carpenter

Rollo Carpenter

male
Rollo Carpenter is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky, a learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatterbot that models, in part, the way humans...
Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter

male, 64 years old (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic. He is best known for his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" (abbreviated as "...
Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon

male, deceased (2001)
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive...

David Levy

male, 64 years old
David Neil Lawrence Levy (b. March 14 1945), in London, is a Scottish International Master chess player and businessman, celebrated for his...
Wolfgang Wahlster

Wolfgang Wahlster

male, 56 years old
Wolfgang Wahlster is a German Artificial Intelligence researcher. He is CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial...