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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Marvin Minsky

1927 - 2016

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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marvin Minsky has received more than 2,023,761 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Marvin Minsky is the 21st most popular computer scientist (down from 20th in 2019), the 1,525th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,598th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Marvin Minsky ranks 21 out of 201. Before him are Vint Cerf, Edgar F. Codd, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Ray Kurzweil, Ken Thompson, and Dorothy Vaughan. After him are Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, John Backus, Satoshi Nakamoto, Ward Cunningham, and Jef Raskin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Marvin Minsky ranks 72. Before him are Margot Honecker, Herbert Blomstedt, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Vernon L. Smith, Narciso Yepes, and Kurt Masur. After him are Steve Ditko, Lucio Fulci, Jean-Claude Pascal, George C. Scott, César Milstein, and Hélène Langevin-Joliot. Among people deceased in 2016, Marvin Minsky ranks 75. Before him are Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Gabriele Amorth, Keith Emerson, Queen Anne of Romania, Iolanda Balaș, and Michal Kováč. After him are Walter Kohn, Michel Butor, Edgar Mitchell, Chyna, Yasuo Takamori, and Thomas Schelling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marvin Minsky ranks 1,525 out of 18,182. Before him are James Avery (1945), Conrad Hilton (1887), David Gross (1941), James Irwin (1930), William Lipscomb (1919), and John Zorn (1953). After him are William Westmoreland (1914), Steve Ditko (1927), Peter Weller (1947), Fats Domino (1928), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), and Husband E. Kimmel (1882).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Marvin Minsky ranks 13. Before him are Larry Page (1973), Vint Cerf (1943), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Ken Thompson (1943), and Dorothy Vaughan (1910). After him are Alan Kay (1940), John Backus (1924), Ward Cunningham (1949), Jef Raskin (1943), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), and Kevin Mitnick (1963).

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