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rootbear on Jan 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Marvin Minsky dies at 88

Minsky used to give talks at the annual Boskone Science Fiction Convention. I heard several and enjoyed them greatly, he was an entertaining speaker.

waterlesscloud on Jan 26, 2016 [–]

He also spoke at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston in 1989. The only time I got to see him speak in person.

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