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Switching from teaching math to artificial intelligence

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Well, at first… yes, at first the course I had been teaching diff… teaching calculus and differential equations – this was the first two years of graduate mathematics – and then what I did is I replaced the one of the math courses by an Introduction To Artificial Intelligence, and gradually I was teaching that instead of… and none... none of the math. And then I moved to the EE department because that made more sense.

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, founding the MIT AI lab in 1970. He also made many contributions to the fields of mathematics, cognitive psychology, robotics, optics and computational linguistics. Since the 1950s, he had been attempting to define and explain human cognition, the ideas of which can be found in his two books, The Emotion Machine and The Society of Mind. His many inventions include the first confocal scanning microscope, the first neural network simulator (SNARC) and the first LOGO 'turtle'.

Title: Switching from teaching math to artificial intelligence

Listeners: Christopher Sykes

Christopher Sykes is a London-based television producer and director who has made a number of documentary films for BBC TV, Channel 4 and PBS.

Tags: Department of Electrical Engineering

Duration: 33 seconds

Date story recorded: 29-31 Jan 2011

Date story went live: 09 May 2011