Curated category
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Marvin MinskyMarvin Minsky once described intelligence as the possible product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts. That idea alone reshaped how scientists and…
- Hilary PutnamHilary Putnam was a philosopher who changed his mind for a living. He arrived at Harvard in 1965, organized campus protests, taught courses on Marxism, and…
- Edward FredkinEdward Fredkin bought chemistry supplies at age 10, made his own fireworks in Los Angeles, and got in trouble because fireworks were illegal.
- Joseph WeizenbaumJoseph Weizenbaum built one of the most unsettling programs in the history of computing, and it unsettled him most of all.
- Oliver SelfridgeOliver Selfridge was born on the 10th of May 1926 into a family that already knew something about building things people would remember.
- Susan AtheySusan Athey grew up watching her father, Whit Athey, work as a physics scholar, while her mother Elizabeth Johansen edited texts and taught English.
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the summer of 1956, and spent the rest of his life trying to build exactly what that phrase…
- Rodney BrooksRodney Brooks once wrote about something he considered almost comical. His colleagues had taken to describing Pluto's orbit as the planet performing…
- Gary GenslerGary Gensler spent the afternoon of the 9th of January 2024 doing damage control. At 4:11pm Eastern time, a post appeared on the Securities and Exchange…
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan shined shoes at Pennsylvania Station as a boy during the Great Depression, in the same building he would later spend decades fighting…
- Edward Jay EpsteinEdward Jay Epstein died in his Manhattan apartment on the 9th of January 2024, at 88 years old, from COVID-19. He had spent more than half a century making…