I think you may be kidding (and if so, hats off, because citing Hawkins as a sage, and misspelling his name, is some choice dry humor). But in case you aren't:
The whole "Minsky and Papert killed the perceptron" lesson-in-a-nutshell was a historical anecdote at the time the connectionist resurgence started in the 1980s with backprop. I.e., Minsky was already in the distant past by the 1990s, having no influence on connectionism or the NIPS crowd, from which large-scale machine learning eventually sprung.
The whole "Minsky and Papert killed the perceptron" lesson-in-a-nutshell was a historical anecdote at the time the connectionist resurgence started in the 1980s with backprop. I.e., Minsky was already in the distant past by the 1990s, having no influence on connectionism or the NIPS crowd, from which large-scale machine learning eventually sprung.