While I was a student at MIT, I heard a rumor that Prof. Minsky in the 1960&#x27;s thought computer vision was such an easy problem that he assigned it to a first year undergrad.<p>I asked him if it was true, and he said that it wasn&#x27;t true that he thought the problem was easy, but it is true that he had a first year undergrad student that he decided to put in charge of his grad students working on the problem.  The first year student was Gerald Sussman.