Marvin Minsky  is a professor of E.E. and C.S at  MIT Media Lab and  MIT AI Lab , and has made many contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.  Minsky's people page .  A  name-dropping paradise, follow, follow, follow!

Books Written by Minsky
 
The Society of Mind* The Society of Mind CDROM 
Semantic Information Processing*
The Turing Option* - Science Fiction, with Harry Harrison
Perceptrons*

Professional Reviews and Responses

Web Reviews, Discussions and Papers

Papers Written by Minsky

Alien Intelligence html
Why People Think Computers Can't text
Matter, Mind and Models  html
Symbolic vs. Connectionist  html
Emotion Machine  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
 

Links Pages

Related Poeple
 
Misky's people (and books) page  - He's done it better anyway. I have included the most important to me below. Most of these will end up with web pages on my site.  Thanks, Marvin, you make my job easy.
Douglas Hofstadter Daniel Dennet Alan Turing  Nicholas Negroponte
Richard Feynman*  Danny Hillis *  Alan Kay
Edward Purcell *  John McCarthy  Hans Moravec*
Claude Shannon *  Jon Doyle*  Ray Kurzweil
B.F. Skinner *  Carl Sagan *  Roger Schank
John v. Neumann  Norbert Wiener*  Terry Winograd