Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque. IRVINE, CALIF. - Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe.
A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys. "This is Farouk al-Aziz, code name Oracle," he said into the keys as he sat in his parked car in this quiet community south of Los Angeles. "It's November 13th, 4:30 a.m. Isaac Asimov. Marvin Minsky. Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.[6][7][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Biography[edit] Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.[22] Probably no one would ever know this; it did not matter.
In the 1980s, Minsky and Good had shown how neural networks could be generated automatically—self replicated—in accordance with any arbitrary learning program.