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Arthur Samuel

1901 - 1990

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Samuel is the 29th most popular computer scientist (up from 124th in 2019), the 1,966th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,576th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Arthur Samuel ranks 29 out of 245. Before him are Alan Kay, Dorothy Vaughan, Vint Cerf, Larry Page, Sudha Murty, and George Dantzig. After him are Edgar F. Codd, Ward Cunningham, Richard E. Stearns, Sergey Brin, Hal Finney, and Guido van Rossum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Arthur Samuel ranks 75. Before him are Itzhak Stern, Charles Brenton Huggins, Souvanna Phouma, Hans Kammler, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, and Barbara Cartland. After him are Zhang Xueliang, Vasili Kuznetsov, Milada Horáková, Rudolf Caracciola, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Yang Kaihui. Among people deceased in 1990, Arthur Samuel ranks 58. Before him are Alexander Pechersky, Reinaldo Arenas, Delphine Seyrig, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Jill Ireland. After him are Vasili Kuznetsov, Philippe Soupault, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Taiichi Ohno, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and Manuel Puig.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Samuel ranks 1,966 out of 20,380. Before him are Susan Hayward (1917), Ben E. King (1938), James Brolin (1940), Karen Carpenter (1950), Ike Turner (1931), and Michael Spence (1943). After him are John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Griffin Dunne (1955), Fredric Brown (1906), Georgina Spelvin (1936), Robert Ryan (1909), and Norman Mailer (1923).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Arthur Samuel ranks 20. Before him are Ken Thompson (1943), Alan Kay (1940), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Larry Page (1973), and George Dantzig (1914). After him are Ward Cunningham (1949), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Hal Finney (1956), Charles Bachman (1924), Ivan Sutherland (1938), and Steve Russell (1937).

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