Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)

For the British politician, see Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft.
Arthur Lee Samuel
Born(1901-12-05)December 5, 1901
Emporia, Kansas
DiedJuly 29, 1990(1990-07-29) (aged 88)
Stanford, California
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMIT (Master 1926)
College of Emporia (1923)
Known forSamuel Checkers-playing Program
Alpha–beta pruning (an early implementation)
Pioneer in Machine Learning[2]
TeX project (with Donald Knuth)
AwardsComputer Pioneer Award (1987) [1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsBell Laboratories (1928)
University of Illinois (1946)
IBM Poughkeepsie Laboratory (1949)
Stanford University (1966)

Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990)[3] was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[2] He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959.[4] The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI).[5] He was also a senior member in the TeX community who devoted much time giving personal attention to the needs of users and wrote an early TeX manual in 1983.[6]

  1. ^ "1987 Computer Pioneer Award". computer.org. Computer Society. 6 April 2018. For Adaptive non-numeric processing
  2. ^ a b John McCarthy; Edward Feigenbaum (1990). "In Memoriam Arthur Samuel: Pioneer in Machine Learning". AI Magazine. 11 (3). AAAI. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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  4. ^ Samuel, Arthur L. (1959). "Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers". IBM Journal of Research and Development. 44: 206–226. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.368.2254. doi:10.1147/rd.441.0206. [failed verification]
  5. ^ Gio Wiederhold; John McCarthy; Ed Feigenbaum (1990). "Memorial Resolution: Arthur L. Samuel" (PDF). Stanford University Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference tex-90 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).