Dowe, David L. Introduction to Ray Solomonoff 85th memorial conference. (English) Zbl 1403.68006 Dowe, David L. (ed.), Algorithmic probability and friends. Bayesian prediction and artificial intelligence. Papers from the Ray Solomonoff 85th memorial conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 30 – December 2, 2011. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-44957-4/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7070. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1-36 (2013). Summary: This piece is an introduction to the proceedings of the Ray Solomonoff 85th memorial conference, paying tribute to the works and life of Ray Solomonoff, and mentioning other papers from the conference.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1277.68007]. Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 68-03 History of computer science 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 60G25 Prediction theory (aspects of stochastic processes) 68Q30 Algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity, etc.) 68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence Keywords:Ray Solomonoff; Solomonoff memorial; Solomonoff theory of prediction; algorithmic probability; ALP; convergence; completeness; algorithmic information theory; AIT; Kolmogorov complexity; non-parametrics; training sequences; technological singularity; realization of artificial intelligence; dangers Biographic References: Solomonoff, Ray PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. L. Dowe}, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 7070, 1--36 (2013; Zbl 1403.68006) Full Text: DOI