Ryszard Stanisław Michalski (1937 - September 20, 2007), a Polish American computer scientist and pioneer in machine learning. While working at the Polish Academy of Sciences in the 60s, Michalski devised an early computer system that could recognize handwriting. After coming to the United States in 1970, working and teaching at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and from 1988 at George Mason University, where he founded the Machine Learning Laboratory [1], he created applications in which computers could execute a form of reasoning, drawing conclusions from information supplied to them. In 1997, he developed an influential computational system he called the Learnable Evolution Model. Ryszard Michalski died September 20, 2007 of cancer, aged 70 [2] [3] .
Ryszard Michalski [4]

Selected Publications

• Ryszard Michalski, Zenon Kulpa (1971). A System of Programs for the Synthesis of Switching Circuits Using the Method of Disjoint Stars. IFIP Congress
• Ryszard Michalski and Pericles Negri (1977). An experiment on inductive learning in chess endgames. Machine Intelligence 8, pdf
• Ryszard Michalski (1977). A System of Programs for Computer-Aided Induction: A Summary. IJCAI 1977: 319-320
• Ryszard Michalski, Jaime Carbonell, Tom Mitchell (1983). Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach. Tioga Publishing Company, ISBN 0-935382-05-4. google books
• Ryszard Michalski, Jaime Carbonell, Tom Mitchell (1985). Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach. Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 0-934613-09-5. google books
  
• Ryszard Michalski, Jaime Carbonell, Tom Mitchell (1986). Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume II. Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 0-934613-00-1. google books
• Tom Mitchell, Jaime Carbonell, Ryszard Michalski (1986). Machine Learning: A Guide to Current Research. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 12
• Ryszard Michalski, Patrick Winston (1986). Variable Precision Logic. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 29, pp. 121-146, pdf
• Yves Kodratoff, Ryszard Michalski (1990). Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume III. Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1-55860-119-8. google books
• Ryszard Michalski, George Tecuci (1994). Machine Learning: A Multistrategy Approach, Volume IV. Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1-55860-251-8. google books
• Ryszard Michalski (1998). Learnable Evolution: Combining Symbolic and Evolutionary Learning. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL'98)
• Ryszard Michalski, Ivan Bratko, Miroslav Kubat (eds.) (1998). Machine Learning and Data Mining: Methods and Applications. John Wiley & Sons
  Miroslav Kubat, Ivan Bratko, Ryszard Michalski (1998). A Review of Machine Learning Methods. pdf
• Ryszard Michalski (2000). LEARNABLE EVOLUTION MODEL Evolutionary Processes Guided by Machine Learning. Machine Learning 38

External Links

• Interview with Ryszard S. Michalski, the father of Machine Learning - KnowledgeBoard
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ryszard Michalski
• prof. dr hab. Ryszard Michalski from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Polish)
• Ryszard Michalski (informatyk) from Wikipedia.pl (Polish)

References

1. ^ Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory at George Mason University
2. ^ University Mourns Death of Prof. Michalski – The Mason Gazette - George Mason University
3. ^ Ryszard Michalski; Shaped How Machines Learn by Matt Schudel, The Washington Post, October 1, 2007
4. ^ University Mourns Death of Prof. Michalski – The Mason Gazette - George Mason University
5. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
6. ^ DBLP: Ryszard S. Michalski

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