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Excerpt: Ray J. Solomonoff died on December 7, 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of complications of a stroke caused by an aneurism in his head. Ray was the first inventor of Algorithmic Information Theory which deals with the shortest effective description length of objects and is commonly designated by the term “Kolmogorov complexity.” In the 1950s Solomonoff was one of the first researchers to treat probabilistic grammars and the associated languages. He treated probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (AI) when “probabilistic” was unfashionable, and treated questions of machine learning early on. But his greatest contribution is the creation of Algorithmic Information Theory. [...]
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Algorithms 2010, 3(3), 260-264; doi:10.3390/a3030260
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Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory
Received: 12 March 2010 / Accepted: 14 March 2010 / Published: 20 July 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue "Algorithmic Complexity in Physics & Embedded Artificial Intelligences"—In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009))
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Excerpt: Ray J. Solomonoff died on December 7, 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of complications of a stroke caused by an aneurism in his head. Ray was the first inventor of Algorithmic Information Theory which deals with the shortest effective description length of objects and is commonly designated by the term “Kolmogorov complexity.” In the 1950s Solomonoff was one of the first researchers to treat probabilistic grammars and the associated languages. He treated probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (AI) when “probabilistic” was unfashionable, and treated questions of machine learning early on. But his greatest contribution is the creation of Algorithmic Information Theory. [...]
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Vitanyi, P.M. Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory. Algorithms 2010, 3, 260-264.
AMA StyleVitanyi PM. Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory. Algorithms. 2010; 3(3):260-264.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVitanyi, Paul M.B. 2010. "Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory." Algorithms 3, no. 3: 260-264.
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