Technology Review interviews Marvin Minsky
On July 13th, Marvin Minsky co-opened the 50th anniversary conference of the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1956). Technology Review interviewed Professor Minsky on July 11th. They preface their review with a suscinct summary of his career path:
Working with Seymour Papert in the MIT AI Lab, for instance, Minsky began in the 1970s to develop the "Society of Mind" theory, which posits that layers of purposeful yet mindless "agents" work together to generate consciousness.
Technology Review interrupted Minsky on July 11, as he was proofing the galleys for his forthcoming book, The Emotion Machine, which reinterprets the human mind as a "cloud of resources," or mini-machines that turn on and off depending on the situation and give rise to our various emotional and mental states.
The interview maybe found online at Wade Roush, Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That Emote, Technology Review, Thursday, July 13, 2006, http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17164&ch=infotech