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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Samuel has received more than 364,000 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Samuel is the 122nd most popular computer scientist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 6,953rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,575th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 16

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  • 3.61

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  • 2.66

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Arthur Samuel ranks 122 out of 201Before him are John L. Hennessy, Vitalik Buterin, Annie Easley, Abraham Lempel, Paul G. Comba, and Liu Gang. After him are Kathleen Antonelli, Michael Dertouzos, Phil Zimmermann, Shafi Goldwasser, Richard E. Stearns, and Andy Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Arthur Samuel ranks 241Before him are Mickey Marcus, Paul Martin, Louis Clarke, Malcolm MacDonald, Mildred Davis, and Frankie Genaro. After him are Heðin Brú, Gerald Finzi, Pyotr Novikov, László Németh, Mark Oliphant, and Aleksandr Andronov. Among people deceased in 1990, Arthur Samuel ranks 208Before him are Frédéric Rossif, Oscarino Costa Silva, Chiara Badano, Max Bense, Giorgio Ghezzi, and Bahriye Üçok. After him are Georges Lacombe, Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Malcolm Muggeridge, Heitor Canalli, Yevgeniya Sechenova, and Gary Merrill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Samuel ranks 6,953 out of 18,182Before him are Lynn Collins (1977), Jeremy Davies (1969), Evelyn Furtsch (1914), Robert Carradine (1954), Betty Carter (1929), and Seth Green (1974). After him are Arthur Freed (1894), Paula Prentiss (1938), Robert John Braidwood (1907), Ken Foree (1948), John P. Ryan (1936), and David Filo (1966).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Arthur Samuel ranks 72Before him are James H. Clark (1944), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jean Bartik (1924), Adele Goldberg (1945), John L. Hennessy (1952), and Annie Easley (1933). After him are Phil Zimmermann (1954), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Andy Rubin (1963), Anita Borg (1949), and Bill Joy (1954).