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Oliver Selfridge
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Interview
Biography
Selfridge left England when he was 14 years old to study in the USA with the
mathematician Norbert Wiener, the "father of cybernetics". In the 1940s
Selfridge, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts contributed to establishing the theoretical
bases of neural networks. |
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| Then, with Marvin Minsky, he began the first research into Artificial Intelligence, a
challenge which he is still engaged in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
in Boston, where for many years he has been the Director of the Artificial Intelligence
Lab. |
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