The article mentions Marvin Minsky as an advocate of symbolic logic approaches, and that Perceptrons (the book) was an attack on perceptrons and neural nets and

The article mentions Marvin Minsky as an advocate of symbolic logic approaches, and that Perceptrons (the book) was an attack on perceptrons and neural nets and connectionist theories. This is false on both accounts. 1) Minsky was emblematic of a Scruffy, and to this day, Scruffy approaches are associated with Minsky and MIT. He didn't believe that statistical or connectionist approaches were bad, just that they were not a silver bullet and not going to solve every problem with AI. He has embraced nearly every prominent approach to AI, and simultaneously criticized the near-religious beliefs that they spawn. 2) Minsky didn't attack perceptrons and neural nets. His book was an objective criticism of them, laying out very clearly the mathematical limitations of them, as well as philosophical problems with approaching them as a catch all solution.