computer scientist
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computer scientists
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For one of the optimistic developers of AI, the musically minded computer scientist Marvin Minsky, the Media Lab functioned akin to a surgeon removing blockages to the imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The computer scientist behind groundbreaking research that helped land Nasa's astronauts on the Moon, has died aged 90.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He is not a computer scientist, and he is not exactly known for holding accurate views of how artificial intelligence actually works.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
The term originates in the 1990s, but its spirit goes further back—at least to British computer scientist Alan Turing, who devised what became known as the Turing test.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
As the Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says, “Bill Joy is one of the most influential people in the modern history of computing.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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