Keynote Speaker: Marvin Minsky

The Keynote Speaker for DCC04 will be Marvin Minsky. Marvin Minsky is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marvin Minsky is one of the world's leading authorities in artificial intelligence. His seminal book Society of Mind is an exploration of human intellectual structure and function. Recently, he has worked on imparting common-sense reasoning capabilities to machines.

Minsky's many inventions include the first neural network simulator, mechanical hands and other robotic devices, the confocal scanning microscope, the "Muse" synthesizer for musical variations (with Fredkin), and the first LOGO "turtle" (with Papert). His numerous awards include the ACM Turing Award, the Japan Prize, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the Rank Prize, the Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.