Ray Solomonoff
Ray Solomonoff · Technology & Engineering
Founded algorithmic information theory.
1926, Cleveland, Ohio, USA — 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
United States
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Ray Solomonoff was an American mathematician who founded algorithmic information theory and invented the theory of universal inductive inference (Solomonoff induction), providing a formal, computational foundation for machine learning and prediction. He was one of the attendees of the 1956 Dartmouth workshop that launched artificial intelligence as a field. He was born in Cleveland to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents and was Jewish.
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Founded algorithmic information theory.
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