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Kenneth Christopher "Chris" McKinstry (February 12, 1967 – January 23, 2006) was a researcher in artificial intelligence. He led the development of the MISTIC project which was launched in May 1996. He founded the Mindpixel project in July 2000, and closed it in December 2005. McKinstry's AI work and similar early death dovetailed with another contemporary AI researcher, Push Singh and his MIT Open Mind Common Sense Project.〔(The Streeb-Greebling Diaries: Legends in AI )〕〔(),()〕 ==Life== McKinstry was a Canadian citizen. Born in Winnipeg, he resided several years in Chile. Since 1999, he lived in Antofagasta as a VLT operator for the European Southern Observatory. At the end of 2004, he moved back to Santiago, Chile. Suffering from bipolar disorder, McKinstry had an armed standoff with police in Toronto in 1990.〔http://groups.google.ca/group/wpg.general/msg/2764a9158359f7b8?dmode=source〕〔http://groups.google.ca/group/wpg.general/msg/42073915fd22e6ea?dmode=source〕 He was known on the Internet for discussing his drug use〔http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=group%3Aalt.drugs&qt_s=Search&enc_author=TXXxmxIAAABmFsVfs2py6k7mxvUQ5FwCa-o86qnWqi4QtyUzzs6lJg〕 and making extravagant claims about his technology.〔(Chris McKinstry: master hoaxster? )〕〔http://groups.google.com/group/comp.ai.nat-lang/msg/672a5fc5a86f850b〕 He claimed that he became a millionaire at the age of 17 from inventing a copy protection scheme "marketed under the names oxylok, prolock, and mediaguard",〔http://groups.google.com/group/wpg.general/msg/3d5906b2bf387f1b?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off〕 however, this claim has never been verified. In 1997, Chris McKinstry started an online soap opera, ''CR6''. Like many other dot-coms, the start-up failed after several months. McKinstry claimed to have lost $1 million in the CR6 failure, and the many people he recruited to build the soap opera, including photographers, writers, a director, and several prominent businesses, never received any of the money owed them for their work.〔http://groups.google.com/group/wpg.general/msg/c83d6ed73b00af9c?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off〕〔http://groups.google.com/group/wpg.general/tree/browse_frm/thread/478641328950e5af/2797159f34d83e47?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fwpg.general%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F478641328950e5af%2Fc83d6ed73b00af9c%3F#doc_2797159f34d83e47〕 Before his death McKinstry designed an experiment with two cognitive scientists to study the dynamics of thought processes using data from his Mindpixel project. This work has now been published in Psychological Science in its January, 2008 issue,〔McKinstry, C., Dale, R., & Spivey, M.J. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. ''Psychological Science'', ''19'', 22-24. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/index.cfm?journal=ps&content=ps/19_1〕 with McKinstry as posthumous first author. McKinstry is the subject of a 2010 documentary called ''The Man Behind the Curtain'' which recounts his innovative work and his mental battles.〔http://themanbehindthecurtainfilm.com〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris McKinstry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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