Oliver Selfridge
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Selfridge in 2008 | |
| Born | Oliver Gordon Selfridge May 10, 1926 London, England |
| Died | December 3, 2008 (aged 82) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) |
| Known for | Pandemonium Architecture |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer science, Artificial Intelligence |
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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."