"I should refine my notion of how difficult to approach... Minsky has never been difficult to approach. He just seemed that way because anybody sufficiently famous will seem difficult to approach to a shy graduate student. I'm still awed by Minsky. In a sense, nothing's changed."
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Patrick Winston
Patrick Winston (February 5, 1943 – July 19, 2019) was an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winston was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997.
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