Ray Solomonoff
<p>Jul 02, 2011 08:39 PM
 
born 1926  died dec 7 2009  age 83  founded AIT.
 
AIT formalizes Occam's razor.
 
A machine independent method of assigning a probability to each hypothesis that explains a given observation,
sithe simplest hypothesis (the SHORTEST PROGRAM) having the highest probability and the
incr complex hypotheses get incr smaller probs.
 
his goal in AI:  to develop a machine that could solve hard problems using probabilistic methods.
 
son of Russian immigrants.  was a Navy instructor in electronics in WW2.
MS in Physics from Univ of Chicago  (studied with Carnap and Fermi).
 
1952 he met Marv Minsky and John McCarthy;
 
1956  Dartmouth Summer Conference on AI see wiki:  proposed by Claude Shannon
 
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