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I. J. Good

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Irving John ("I. J."; "Jack") Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) The Times of 16-apr-09, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6100314.ece was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. [1]

75 relations: Admiralty Research Laboratory, Alan Turing, AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol, April 5, Archives of American Mathematics, Atlas Computer Laboratory, Banburismus, Bayes factor, Biuro Szyfrów, Black hole cosmology, Bletchley Park, Bruno de Finetti, Colossus computer, Computer Go, Computer Pioneer Award, Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm, Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, De Bruijn graph, Dean Radin, Deaths in April 2009, December 1916, Donald Michie, Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Evergreen Game, Existential risk from artificial general intelligence, Fine-structure constant, G. H. Hardy, Generating function, Gillies' conjecture, Good (surname), Good–Turing frequency estimation, Government Communications Headquarters, Hartley (unit), History of statistics, Hut 8, IJG, Index of cryptography articles, Iterative reconstruction, James Northcote (actor), Joan Clarke, John Good, Kullback–Leibler divergence, List of British Jewish scientists, List of cryptographers, List of Fellows of the American Statistical Association, List of mathematicians (G), List of Old Haberdashers, List of people associated with Bletchley Park, ..., List of statisticians, MacMahon Master theorem, Marian Rejewski, Marvin Minsky, Newmanry, Numerology, Our Final Invention, Positron emission tomography, Ratio Club, Raven paradox, Robert Robinson (organic chemist), Shaun Wylie, Signals intelligence in modern history, Simpson's paradox, Smith's Prize, Technological singularity, Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Imitation Game, The Secret War (TV series), The Singularity Is Near, Transhumanism, Wigner's friend, World War II cryptography, Yvonne Bishop, 1944 in chess. Expand index (25 more) »

Admiralty Research Laboratory

The Admiralty Research Laboratory (ARL) was a research laboratory that supported the work of the UK Admiralty in Teddington, London, England from 1921 to 1977.

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Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

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AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol

AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol, also known as the Google DeepMind Challenge Match, was a five-game Go match between 18-time world champion Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by Google DeepMind, played in Seoul, South Korea between 9 and 15 March 2016.

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April 5

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Archives of American Mathematics

The Archives of American Mathematics, located at the University of Texas at Austin, aims to collect, preserve, and provide access to the papers principally of American mathematicians and the records of American mathematical organizations.

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Atlas Computer Laboratory

The Atlas Computer Laboratory on the Harwell, Oxfordshire campus shared by the Harwell Laboratory was one of the major computer laboratories in the world, which operated between 1961 and 1975 to provide a service to British scientists at a time when powerful computers were not usually available.

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Banburismus

Banburismus was a cryptanalytic process developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in England during the Second World War.

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Bayes factor

In statistics, the use of Bayes factors is a Bayesian alternative to classical hypothesis testing.

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Biuro Szyfrów

The Biuro Szyfrów (Polish for "Cipher Bureau") was the interwar Polish General Staff's Second Department's unit charged with SIGINT and both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptanalysis (the study of ciphers and codes, for the purpose of "breaking" them).

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Black hole cosmology

A black hole cosmology (also called Schwarzschild cosmology or black hole cosmological model) is a cosmological model in which the observable universe is the interior of a black hole.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II.

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Bruno de Finetti

Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.

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Colossus computer

Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

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Computer Go

Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go.

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Computer Pioneer Award

The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry.

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Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm

The Cooley–Tukey algorithm, named after J. W. Cooley and John Tukey, is the most common fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm.

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Cryptanalysis of the Enigma

Cryptanalysis of the Enigma ciphering system enabled the western Allies in World War II to read substantial amounts of Morse-coded radio communications of the Axis powers that had been enciphered using Enigma machines.

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Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher

Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher was the process that enabled the British to read high-level German army messages during World War II.

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De Bruijn graph

In graph theory, an n-dimensional De Bruijn graph of m symbols is a directed graph representing overlaps between sequences of symbols.

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Dean Radin

Dean Radin (born February 29, 1952) is a parapsychology researcher.

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Deaths in April 2009

The following is a list of deaths in April 2009.

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December 1916

The following events occurred in December 1916.

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Donald Michie

Donald Michie (11 November 1923 – 7 July 2007) was a British researcher in artificial intelligence.

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Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence

The Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence is a recursively defined sequence of binary digits with pseudorandom properties, defined by.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American AI researcher and writer best known for popularising the idea of friendly artificial intelligence.

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Evergreen Game

The Evergreen Game is a famous chess game, won by Adolf Anderssen against Jean Dufresne in 1852.

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Existential risk from artificial general intelligence

Existential risk from artificial general intelligence is the hypothesis that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AI) could someday result in human extinction or some other unrecoverable global catastrophe.

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Fine-structure constant

In physics, the fine-structure constant, also known as Sommerfeld's constant, commonly denoted (the Greek letter ''alpha''), is a fundamental physical constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.

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G. H. Hardy

Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.

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Generating function

In mathematics, a generating function is a way of encoding an infinite sequence of numbers (an) by treating them as the coefficients of a power series.

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Gillies' conjecture

In number theory, Gillies' conjecture is a conjecture about the distribution of prime divisors of Mersenne numbers and was made by Donald B. Gillies in a 1964 paper in which he also announced the discovery of three new Mersenne primes.

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Good (surname)

Good is an English surname.

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Good–Turing frequency estimation

Good–Turing frequency estimation is a statistical technique for estimating the probability of encountering an object of a hitherto unseen species, given a set of past observations of objects from different species.

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Government Communications Headquarters

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.

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Hartley (unit)

The hartley (symbol Hart), also called a ban, or a dit (short for decimal digit), is a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10, rather than the powers of 2 and base 2 logarithms which define the bit, or shannon.

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History of statistics

The history of statistics in the modern sense dates from the mid-17th century, with the term statistics itself coined in 1749 in German, although there have been changes to the interpretation of the word over time.

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Hut 8

Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages.

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IJG

IJG may refer to.

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Index of cryptography articles

Articles related to cryptography include.

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Iterative reconstruction

Iterative reconstruction refers to iterative algorithms used to reconstruct 2D and 3D images in certain imaging techniques.

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James Northcote (actor)

James Northcote (born James Walker; 10 October 1987) is an English actor and Producer who has appeared in The Last Kingdom (TV series),The Imitation Game, Nymphomaniac, Anna Karenina, and Wuthering Heights.

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Joan Clarke

Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (née Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist best known for her work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

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John Good

John or Jack Good may refer to.

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Kullback–Leibler divergence

In mathematical statistics, the Kullback–Leibler divergence (also called relative entropy) is a measure of how one probability distribution diverges from a second, expected probability distribution.

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List of British Jewish scientists

List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

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List of cryptographers

List of cryptographers.

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List of Fellows of the American Statistical Association

Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership.

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List of mathematicians (G)

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List of Old Haberdashers

The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School (commonly referred to as HABS) is a British independent school for boys aged 4–18 in Hertfordshire which is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Haileybury Group.

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List of people associated with Bletchley Park

This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park (the British codebreaking establishment), notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere.

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List of statisticians

This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning.

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MacMahon Master theorem

In mathematics, the MacMahon Master theorem (MMT) is a result in enumerative combinatorics and linear algebra.

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Marian Rejewski

Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932.

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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.

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Newmanry

The Newmanry was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II.

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Numerology

Numerology is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.

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Our Final Invention

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author James Barrat.

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Positron emission tomography

Positron-emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine functional imaging technique that is used to observe metabolic processes in the body as an aid to the diagnosis of disease.

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Ratio Club

The Ratio Club was a small informal dining club of young psychiatrists, psychologists, physiologists, mathematicians and engineers who met to discuss issues in cybernetics.

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Raven paradox

The raven paradox, also known as Hempel's paradox, Hempel's ravens, or paradox of indoor ornithology, is a paradox arising from the question of what constitutes evidence for a statement.

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Robert Robinson (organic chemist)

Sir Robert Robinson (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids.

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Shaun Wylie

Shaun Wylie (17 January 1913 – 2 October 2009, The Times, 5 November 2009., Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK.) was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.

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Signals intelligence in modern history

SIGINT is a contraction of SIGnals INTelligence.

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Simpson's paradox

Simpson's paradox, or the Yule–Simpson effect, is a phenomenon in probability and statistics, in which a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when these groups are combined.

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Smith's Prize

The Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1769.

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Technological singularity

The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence (ASI) will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

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Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey

The 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured numerous fictional future technologies, which have proven prescient in light of subsequent developments around the world.

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The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (which was previously adapted as the stage play and BBC drama Breaking the Code).

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The Secret War (TV series)

The Secret War was a seven–part television series produced by the BBC in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum documenting various technical developments during the Second World War.

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The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

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Transhumanism

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology.

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Wigner's friend

Wigner's friend is a thought experiment proposed by the physicist Eugene Wigner; it is a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in which, from the point of view of a human observer, a second observer is in a state of quantum superposition.

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World War II cryptography

Cryptography was used extensively during World War II, with a plethora of code and cipher systems fielded by the nations involved.

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Yvonne Bishop

Yvonne Millicent Mahala Bishop (died May 26, 2015) was an American statistician.

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1944 in chess

Events in chess in 1944.

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