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Machine Learning
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History
1959 — Arthur Samuel
Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.
Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 — July 29, 1990) was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He popularized the term “machine learning” in 1959. 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). 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.
Computer checkers (draughts) development
Samuel is most known within the AI community for his groundbreaking work in computer checkers in 1959, and seminal research on machine learning, beginning in 1949. He graduated from MIT and taught at MIT and UIUC from 1946 to 1949. He believed teaching computers to play games…
