Nationality American Role Computer scientist | Name Patrick Winston | |
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Alma mater MIT (BS 1965, MS 1967, PhD 1970) Thesis Learning Structural Descriptions from Examples (1970) Fields Artificial intelligence, Computer Science Books Artificial intelligence, On to Smalltalk, LISP Similar Marvin Minsky, David Waltz, Gerald Jay Sussman, Scott Fahlman, Philip Greenspun | ||
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Patrick Henry Winston is an American computer scientist, and is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winston was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, succeeding Marvin Minsky, who left to help found the MIT Media Lab and succeeded by Rodney Brooks. Brooks assisted with merging the lab with the MIT Lab for Computer Science, to form the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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- Mit latke hamentashen debate 2008 patrick winston l3
- Lecture 53 Patrick Winston Story Understanding
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Winston's thesis work with Marvin Minsky concerned the difficulty of learning; he concluded it was only possible to learn something one nearly already knows. He is active in research and interested in machine learning and human intelligence. Winston is known within the MIT community for his strong commitment to supporting MIT undergraduate culture.
As of December 2013, Winston teaches 6.034: Artificial Intelligence and 6.803/6.833: Human Intelligence Enterprise. Winston is also an author of a number of computer science and AI textbooks, including:
He is also an alumnus of the Mass Gamma chapter of Phi Delta Theta.
Lecture 5.3: Patrick Winston - Story Understanding
