Interview with Marvin Minsky

Marvin L. Minsky is Donner Professor of Science at M.I.T. He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI), and for many years headed M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, one of the nation's leading laboratories in this field. He is a recipient of the Association for Computing Machiner's (ACM) Turing Award. This interview took place the afternoon of 31 May 1980 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.