Editing Gerald Jay Sussman (section)

==Education==
Sussman attended the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] as an undergraduate and received his [[Bachelor of Science|SB]]<!-- SB is correct term for the degree, as awarded by MIT --> in mathematics in 1968. He continued his studies at MIT and obtained a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1973, also in mathematics, under the supervision of [[Seymour Papert]]. His doctoral thesis was titled "A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition" focusing on [[artificial intelligence]] and [[machine learning]], using a computational performance model named ''HACKER''.<ref>{{cite thesis|type=Ph.D.|last=Sussman|first=Gerald|title=A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|year=1973|hdl=1721.1/6894}}</ref>

According to a common story,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kragic |first=Danica |date=October 17, 2018 |title=From active perception to deep learning |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aav1778 |journal=Science Robotics |language=en |volume=3 |issue=23 |doi=10.1126/scirobotics.aav1778 |pmid=33141734 |s2cid=53020752 |issn=2470-9476}}</ref> in 1966, [[Marvin Minsky]] tasked his student Gerald Jay Sussman to “spend the summer linking a camera to a computer and getting the computer to describe what it saw.”<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Papert |first=Seymour A. |date=July 1, 1966 |title=The Summer Vision Project |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6125 |journal=MIT Libraries – Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications |language=en-US |hdl=1721.1/6125}}</ref> This story was often told to illustrate that the difficulty of computer vision was not apparent to AI researchers in the early days.