Marvin Minsky
"The science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men"
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. His research has led to advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, neural networks, and the theory of Turing Machines and recursive functions.
Eugene Charniak
"The study of mental faculties through the use of computational models"
Eugene Charniak is Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Brown University. His main area of research is language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning.
Patrick Winston
"The study of ideas that enable computers to be intelligent"
Patrick H. Winston is Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is particularly involved in the study of how vision, language, and motor faculties account for intelligence. His book "Artificial Intelligence" is a standard introductory text to the subject.
John L. Gordon
"The aim of Artificial Intelligence is to create intelligent machines and through this, to understand the principles of intelligence. At the moment, we can settle for creating less stupid machines."
Dr John L. Gordon is Director of Applied Knowledge Research & Innovation Ltd. His PhD research focussed on Intelligent Buildings.