Samuel Arthur

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 worlds first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI). He was also 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. He died of complications from Parkinsons disease on 29 July 1990 at age 88 in Stanford, California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less