Scenes from the birth of artificial intelligence

He is a co-inventor of the UNIX operating system and was a graduate student at MIT's pioneering Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. After graduating cum laude in Physics from Harvard University, I went on to MIT for my graduate work. I started there in 1959, spending the first year and a half completing coursework for my Ph.D. qualifying exams. With that milestone behind me it was time to choose my Master's thesis topic. It was then that I decided to focus my thesis on the area of artificial intelligence.