Editing Marvin Minsky (section)

==Awards and affiliations==
Minsky won the [[Turing Award]] (the greatest distinction in computer science)<ref name="nytimes-obit" /> in 1969, the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1982,<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=  https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref> the [[Japan Prize]] in 1990,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Japan Prize |url=https://www.japanprize.jp/en/prize_past_1990_prize01.html |access-date=30 August 2024}}</ref> the [[IJCAI Award for Research Excellence]] for 1991, and the [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)|Benjamin Franklin Medal]] from the [[Franklin Institute]] for 2001.<ref name="franklinmedal">[http://www.fi.edu/winners/2001/minsky_marvin.faw?winner_id=3528 Marvin Minsky – The Franklin Institute Awards – Laureate Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526130553/http://www.fi.edu/winners/2001/minsky_marvin.faw?winner_id=3528 |date=May 26, 2011}}. [[Franklin Institute]]. Retrieved on March 25, 2008.</ref> In 2006, he was inducted as a Fellow of the [[Computer History Museum]] "for co-founding the field of artificial intelligence, creating early neural networks and robots, and developing theories of human and machine cognition."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/marvin-minsky/ |title=Marvin Minsky: 2006 Fellow |author=<!--Unstated--> |website=Computer History Museum |access-date=July 30, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329010955/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Marvin,Minsky |archive-date=March 29, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2011, Minsky was inducted into [[IEEE Intelligent Systems]]' AI Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1109/MIS.2011.64 |title=AI's Hall of Fame |url=http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf |journal=[[IEEE Intelligent Systems]] |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=5–15 |year=2011 |access-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-date=December 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216235804/http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014, Minsky won the [[Dan David Prize]]  for "[[Artificial Intelligence]], the Digital Mind".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.tau.ac.il/video/dan_david_prize_2014 |title=Dan David prize 2014 winners |date=May 15, 2014 |access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> He was also awarded with the 2013 [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards|BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in the Information and Communication Technologies category.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/01/15/mit-professor-marvin-minsky-wins-award/aSiCSHIjlGycOGYmeLSZ5L/story.html |title=MIT artificial intelligence, robotics pioneer feted: Award celebrates Minsky's career |newspaper=[[BostonGlobe.com]] |date=August 24, 2011 |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref>

Minsky was affiliated with the following organizations:
* [[United States National Academy of Engineering]]<ref name="brief" />
* [[United States National Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="brief" />
* [[Extropy Institute]]'s Council of Advisors<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.extropy.org/directors.htm|title=Extropy Institute Directors & Advisors|website=www.extropy.org}}</ref>
* [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]]'s Scientific Advisory Board<ref name="AlcorBoard" />
* [[kynamatrix Research Network]]'s Board of Directors<ref>{{cite web|title=kynamatrix Research Network : About|url=http://www.kynamatrix.org/organization.htm|website=www.kynamatrix.org|access-date=9 February 2018}}</ref>