The Musical Mind of Marvin Minsky

Related:

• Marvin improvising at the “Music, Mind, Invention” conference at MIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nynu3pACcyg

• Marvin improvising at a brunch party a few years ago. Sorry for the poor quality; this was a few generations of iPhones ago and not a great audio environment. https://vimeo.com/19960970

Also a Music nut:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/organ.html

The organ is really one of the first computers, actually. It takes in an input and based on your function which you switch on and off, transforms it (make my sound sound like flute, make my sound sound like chorus). I would love to visit this man's home as I hear Knuth has a killer home organ. Neat guys! Being a musician before hacker, I now feel less of a fraud. :)

Great way for presenting this essay!

I especially like that they store the current scroll position as a cookie. There're also some previous drafts available commented out in the HTML.

related: an interview with Laurie Spiegel previously posted here:

http://www.sexmagazine.us/articles/laurie-spiegel/1

that invention was improvised? that is astounding!