From Artificial Neural Networks to Emotion Machines with Marvin Minsky

In 2007, one among the founders and internationally most recognized leadingpioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, professor emeritus atMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Marvin Minsky celebrates his 80th anniversary.Exploiting thnis opportunity, the article overviews his contribution to the above mentionedfields (and might be also to some others), and sketches an (obviously incomplet) picture ofthe history of Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines, and a specific way of doingscience, too.