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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Patrick Winston
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Career
Winston was director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, succeeding Marvin Minsky, who left to help found the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory and succeeded by Rodney Brooks. Brooks assisted with merging the lab with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science, to form the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Winston"s thesis work with Marvin Minsky concerned the difficulty of learning.
He concluded it was only possible to learn something one nearly already knows.
He is active in research and interested in machine learning and human intelligence. Winston is known within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology community for his strong commitment to supporting Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate culture.
As of December 2013, Winston teaches 6.034: Artificial Intelligence and 6.803/6.833: Human Intelligence Enterprise. Winston is also an author of a number of CS and Artificial Intelligence textbooks, including:
Artificial Intelligence
The Psychology of Computer Vision
Lisp (with Berthold K P Horn)
On to C X
On to C++
On to Java (with Sundar Narasimhan)
On to Smalltalk
He is also an alumnus of the Mass Gamma chapter of Phi Delta Theta.
