Curated playlist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Marvin MinskyIn 1951, Marvin Minsky built the first randomly wired neural network learning machine. He called it SNARC.
- Hilary PutnamHilary Putnam invented a leading theory of the mind, then spent years taking it apart.
- Edward FredkinEdward Fredkin never finished college, yet MIT made him a full professor in 1968. Marvin Minsky recruited him.
- Joseph WeizenbaumJoseph Weizenbaum's secretary asked him to leave so she could keep chatting with his program. She knew it was a machine.
- Oliver SelfridgeIn 1959, Oliver Selfridge described software "demons" that shout answers, and the loudest wins.
- Susan AtheyA summer job preparing computer sales bids set Susan Athey on the path to economics.
- Nuno LoureiroNuno Loureiro, a Portuguese plasma physicist, was shot in the foyer of his apartment building in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the evening of the 15th of December 2025. He was taken to a Boston hospital and died early the next morning. At…
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the summer of 1956. He also created the language Lisp.
- Rodney BrooksRodney Brooks argued that robots don't need to think much to act.
- Gary GenslerGary Gensler had to retract an SEC post announcing bitcoin ETF approval. He said the SEC's X account was compromised.
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan once shined shoes in Penn Station, which now has a train hall named for him.
- Edward Jay EpsteinAs a graduate student, Edward Jay Epstein published a 1966 book criticizing the Warren Commission.