# Marvin Minsky (@marvin-minsky)

Marvin Minsky was a American cognitive scientist and AI researcher. Minsky co-founded MIT's AI laboratory and explored perception, robotics, learning and representations of knowledge.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Marvin Minsky's public record._

## Topics

- [Cycles of AI Optimism](/@marvin-minsky/cycles-of-ai-optimism.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [AI at MIT](/@marvin-minsky/ai-at-mit.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Society of Mind](/@marvin-minsky/the-society-of-mind.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/minsky_7440667.cfm
- blog: https://news.mit.edu/2016/marvin-minsky-obituary-0125
- blog: https://www.csail.mit.edu/about/history

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "marvin-minsky", "question": "…"}`.