Production Team: Rich Kroth, Rena Jordan, Mark Kalinowski, Susan O'Connor, Deanna Biase, John Laughton, Judy Smedley, Cathie Allison


Program Committee:Juan Bello, Winslow Burleson, Brett Busha, Michael Casey, Elaine Chew, Parag Chordia, Dan Ellis, Morwaread Farbood, Rebecca Fiebrink, Michel Galante, Grady Gerbracht, Fabien Gouyon, Ozgur Izmirli, Youngmoo Kim, Miroslav Martinovic, Andrew McPherson, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Doug Riecken, Robert Rowe, Meredith K. Stone, Jennifer Wang, Gil Weinberg

Contact for more information: mmi@tcnj.edu

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General Chair: Teresa Marrin Nakra

Program Chair: Andrea Salgian

Performance Chair: Roger Dannenberg

Creative Work Chair: Chris Ault


Performance Committee: Dan Trueman, Gary Fienberg


Creative Work Committee: Margaret Minsky, Warren Buckleiter


Production Coordinator: Rita Patel Eng

Marvin Minksy

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Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in two books: The Emotion Machine and The Society of Mind (which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT). He received the BA and PhD in mathematics at Harvard (1950) and Princeton (1954). In 1951 he built the SNARC, the first neural network simulator. His other inventions include mechanical arms, hands and other robotic devices, the Confocal Scanning Microscope, the "Muse" synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), and one of the first LOGO "turtles". A member of the NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS, he has received the ACM Turing Award, the MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the Rank Prize and the Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal.