Connectionists: The Great Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009) - AGI 2010 In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff

[Juergen Schmidhuber]

The Great Ray Solomonoff, pioneer of Machine Learning, founder of  
Algorithmic Probability Theory, father of the Universal Probability  
Distribution, creator of the Universal Theory of Inductive Inference,  
passed away on Monday 7 December 2009 at age 83, from complications in  
the wake of a broken aneurism in his head. He is survived by his  
loving wife of 40 years, Grace.

Ray Solomonoff was the first to describe the fundamental concept of  
Algorithmic Information or Kolmogorov Complexity. In the new  
millennium his work became the foundation of the first mathematical  
theory of Optimal Universal Artificial Intelligence.

Ray intended to deliver an invited lecture at the upcoming AGI 2010,  
the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (March 5-8 2010) in  
Lugano (where he already spent time in 2001 as a visiting professor at  
the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA). The AGI conference series would not even  
exist without his essential theoretical contributions. With great  
sadness AGI 2010 will be held "In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff."
http://agi-conf.org/2010/

Ray will live on in the many minds shaped by his revolutionary ideas.





Jürgen Schmidhuber
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/

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