SESSION 3
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Oliver G. Selfridge was born in London 10 May 1926. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1942-1945, returning post-gradually from 1946-1950. After 2 years at Si…What I shall present at the meeting in November will be the details of the progress of Pandemonium on the Morse code translation problem. The initial problem we have given the machine is to distinguish dots and dashes. When the behaviour of…I should be very interested to learn if the author has considered these problems and developed any solutions. The problem of stochastic hill-climbing is of practical interest outside the context of this paper, for instance in connection wit…
Oliver G. Selfridge
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Oliver G. Selfridge was a mid-century computer scientist and pioneer in machine learning who developed the Pandemonium architecture, a self-organizing system for pattern recognition and decision-making that used parallel processing and competitive hierarchies of "demons." His work appears in these readings as a foundational model for AI systems that learn and improve their own behavior through feedback, particularly in the context of signal processing tasks like Morse code translation, making him crucial to the genealogy of adaptive and evolutionary computation that the course traces.
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