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Oliver Selfridge

British computer scientist (1926-2008) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 82

Oliver Gordon Selfridge was a British-American mathematician and computer scientist who pioneered the early foundations of modern artificial intelligence. He is mostly known for his 1959 paper, Pandemonium: A Paradigm For Learning describing what's now known as the Pandemonium Architecture.

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He has been called the "Father of Machine Perception."

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United Kingdom
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1926 to 2008 · aged 82