Oliver Selfridge

Oliver Selfridge
Selfridge in 2008
Born
Oliver Gordon Selfridge

(1926-05-10)May 10, 1926
London, England
DiedDecember 3, 2008(2008-12-03) (aged 82)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Known forPandemonium Architecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, 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. 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."