Solomonoff Tributes and Resources

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Painting by Ray, Oct. 2008

Some Tributes to Ray

By John Markoff, New York Times Obituary
Obituary by Grace Solomonoff: Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009)
Song of Ray's death composed and sung by Alex Solomonoff
By Peter Gacs and Paul Vitanyi, IEEE In Memoriam with a discussion of Ray's life and work
The Lifeboat Foundation Memorial with a discussion of Ray's life and work
Tribute by J. Storrs Hall of the Foresight Institute
Tribute "Ray Solomonoff is no More" by Shubhendu Trivedi
Organized by David Dowe, Monash University:
the Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2011
The Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference Proceedings, edited by David Dowe
Harvard Square Stories

Information Resources

Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi, "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications"
Springer-Verlag, N.Y., 2008. Book includes historical notes on Solomonoff
as well as a description and analysis of his work.

Samuel Rathmanner and Marcus Hutter, "A Philosophical Treatise of Universal Induction"
in Entropy 2011, 13, 1076-1136. A very clear philosophical and mathematical analysis
of Solomonoff's Theory of Inductive Inference.
A history of Ray's Work is in the Wikipedia .

Grace Solomonoff, "Events Foreseen", biography of Ray and Description of his Theory of Probability and Prediction,
expanded from the biography in Melbourne Proceedings (Springer Pub.)

An article about Algorithmic Probability is in the Wikipedia .

For another detailed description of Algorithmic Probability, see "Algorithmic Probability"
by Marcus Hutter, Shane Legg, and Paul Vitanyi, in the Scholarpedia,(8):2572.

Peter Gacs and Paul Vitanyi, IEEE In Memoriam gives an excellent discussion of Ray's work,
with a detailed description of Solomonoff's General Theory of Inductive inference.

Filip Dolegiewicz, The Importance of Ray Solomonoff's "An Inductive Inference Machine",
A short film giving an excellent brief overview of "An Inductive Inference Machine"
Solomonoff's 1956 Dartmouth paper on machine learning,
and then describing his development of Algorithmic Probability.

An article about the General Theory of Inductive Inference, and some of the variants by others
is in the Wikipedia ; parts of this article, however are very uneven

For a detailed description of Algorithmic Information Theory, see
Algorithmic Information Theory, by Marcus Hutter, in the Scholarpedia, 2(3):2519.