In 1959 minsky and mccarthy cofounded the artificial intelligence project (now the mit computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory) His work laid the foundation for many modern ai techniques … It quickly became one of the preeminent research centres and training grounds for the nascent field of ai.
Marvin minsky played a pivotal role in the formal establishment of artificial intelligence as a distinct scientific discipline He was a central figure at the 1956 dartmouth summer research project, an event widely recognized as the official birth of ai.