
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 17, 1990                   TAG: 9004170538
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short

TWO AMERICANS SHARE JAPAN SCIENCE PRIZES

An American scientist cited as the "father of artificial intelligence" and three earthquake researchers, including a U.S. professor, today received the two 1990 Japan Prizes, each worth $315,000.

Professor Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been working on how to make computers learn more by themselves, received his prize in the field of "technology of integration."

The other prize, for earth science, was shared by American professor William Jason Morgan of Princeton University, professor Dan Peter McKenzie of Britain's Cambridge University and Xavier Le Pichon, director of the Ecole Normale Superieure in France.

by CNB