Arthur Samuel — Pencipta Istilah 'Machine Learning'

Ilmuwan komputer perintis di IBM, menciptakan program checkers (1952) yang belajar dari pengalaman dan mengalahkan pemain manusia. Mencetuskan istilah 'machine learning'.

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Arthur Samuel

Biodata

Lahir: 5 Desember 1901, Emporia, Kansas
Meninggal: 29 Juli 1990
Profesi: Pioneer in computer gaming and machine learning

Kontribusi

Checkers-playing program (1952) — salah satu program game pertama
Istilah ‘machine learning’ (1952) — pertama kali dicetuskan
Alpha-beta pruning (1950-an) — algoritma search tree
Rote learning dan generalization dalam AI
IBM (1949–1966)

Karier

Bell Labs (1928)
University of Illinois (1946)
IBM (1949–1966) — Poughkeepsie Lab

Pencapaian

Program checkers-nya mengalahkan pemain Connecticut state champion (1962)
Menulis paper seminal “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers” (1959)