Ray Solomonoff, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 83

Ray Solomonoff, a physicist who was one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence, died on Dec. 7 in Boston. He was 83 and had homes in New Ipswich, N.H., and Cambridge, Mass.

The cause was a ruptured brain aneurysm, said his wife, Grace.

As a child Mr. Solomonoff developed what would become a lifelong passion for mathematical theorems, and as a teenager he became captivated with idea of creating machines that could learn and ultimately think.

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