Artificial Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky passed away

Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky died from a cerebral hemorrhage, closing a  noteworthy career in artificial intelligence that spanned more than five decades. He was  88. Minsky, a native New Yorker, cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now  the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) at MIT in 1959, a year after  he joined the faculty at university's electrical engineering and computer science  department, according to a statement from the laboratory. That laboratory emerged long  before supercomputers came on the scene in 1972. Minsky's book The Society of Mind, which was published in 1985, was considered  groundbreaking work regarding the various mechanisms that interacted in intelligence and  thought. His last book, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial  Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind, was published in 2006.