Oliver Selfridge | |
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Born | Oliver Gordon Selfridge May 10, 1926 London, England |
Died | December 3, 2008 | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) |
Known for | Pandemonium Architecture |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics, Computer science, Artificial Intelligence |
Institutions |
Oliver Gordon Selfridge (10 May 1926 – 3 December 2008) was a mathematician and computer scientist who pioneered the early foundations of modern artificial intelligence.[2] He is mostly known for his 1959 paper, Pandemonium: A paradigm for learning describing what's now known as the Pandemonium Architecture. He has been called the "Father of Machine Perception."[3]