MIT
People tagged with MIT.
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Marvin Minsky
Co-founder of MIT’s artificial intelligence laboratory and a founding father of AI
1927 – 2016
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Norbert Wiener
MIT mathematician who founded cybernetics
1894 – 1964
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Joseph Weizenbaum
MIT computer scientist who created ELIZA and became a critic of AI
1923 – 2008
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Cynthia Breazeal
MIT pioneer of social robots who built Kismet and Jibo
Born 1967
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Claude Shannon
Father of information theory and the digital age
1916 – 2001
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Barbara Liskov
MIT computer scientist known for data abstraction and the Liskov substitution principle
Born 1939
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Vannevar Bush
Engineer who led US wartime science and imagined the “memex”, a precursor of the web
1890 – 1974
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Silvio Micali
Italian-American cryptographer and founder of the Algorand blockchain
Born 1954
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Shafi Goldwasser
Cryptographer who co-invented zero-knowledge proofs
Born 1958
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Ron Rivest
MIT cryptographer and the “R” in the RSA encryption system
Born 1947
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Rodney Brooks
Australian roboticist who co-founded iRobot, maker of the Roomba
Born 1954
Jay Forrester
MIT engineer who invented magnetic-core memory and founded system dynamics
1918 – 2016
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Fernando J. Corbató
MIT pioneer of time-sharing and creator of the computer password
1926 – 2019