Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference

The Conference is being held in honour and memory of Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009).

Solomonoff was the father of algorithmic information theory (before Kolmogorov and Chaitin), perhaps the first to advocate probabilistic artificial intelligence, and (in 1985) one of the first to write on the technological singularity.

Solomonoff is also mentioned in the recent "New Scientist" magazine article of Sat 10/Sept/2011 (pp42-45) for having the pioneering ideas in the 1960s of modern theories of intelligence. His January 2010 New York Times obituary is linked to from www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html#rjs.