18 Facts About Arthur Samuel

Arthur Lee Samuel was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.

Arthur Samuel was 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.

Arthur Samuel received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1926, and taught for two years as instructor.

Arthur Samuel developed a gas-discharge transmit-receive switch that allowed a single antenna to be used for both transmitting and receiving.

Arthur Samuel went to IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1949, where he would conceive and carry out his most successful work.

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Arthur Samuel is credited with one of the first software hash tables, and influencing early research in using transistors for computers at IBM.

Arthur Samuel's pioneering non-numerical programming helped shape the instruction set of processors, as he was one of the first to work with computers on projects other than computation.

Arthur Samuel was known for writing articles that made complex subjects easy to understand.

Arthur Samuel was chosen to write an introduction to one of the earliest journals devoted to computing in 1953.

In 1966, Arthur Samuel retired from IBM and became a professor at Stanford University, where he worked the remainder of his life.

Arthur Samuel worked with Donald Knuth on the TeX project, including writing some of the documentation.

Arthur Samuel continued to write software past his 88th birthday.

Arthur 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.

Arthur Samuel graduated from MIT and taught at MIT and UIUC from 1946 to 1949.

Arthur Samuel believed teaching computers to play games was very fruitful for developing tactics appropriate to general problems, and he chose checkers as it is relatively simple though has a depth of strategy.

Arthur Samuel designed various mechanisms by which his program could become better.

Arthur Samuel had it play thousands of games against itself as another way of learning.

Arthur Samuel continued to work on checkers until the mid-1970s, at which point his program achieved sufficient skill to challenge a respectable amateur.