Obituary: Ray Solomonoff, founding father of algorithmic information theory

DOI10.3390/A3030260MaRDI QIDQ1662560zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul M. B. Vitányi

Publication date 20 August 2018

Published in Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/a3030260

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of information and communication theory (94-03)

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