Favourite scientists of all time
The 3 of my most favourite scientists: John von Neumann, John Archibald Wheeler, and Ray Solomonoff, in Salvador Dali art style (using the Android app Moment Cam).
On the shoulder of giants
I have been deeply inspired by many giants in the scientific community. I hold them in the highest regard, for either their thoughts resonate well with mine or their propositions fuel my neural engines. While unification has been the holy grail for too long, I find clues lurking in the works of these great men.
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) Maxwell’s demon
- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) set theory
- Max Plank (1858-1947) Plank units
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) general relativity
- Neils Bohr (1885-1962) atomic model; classical observers
- Louis de Bröglie (1892-1987) wave-particle duality
- Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) wavefunction; life; observer; Schrödinger equation; Schrödinger cat; quantum biology
- Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) uncertainty principle; matrix mechanics
- Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) undefinability of truth
- John von Neumann (1903-1957) self-replicating machines; automata theory; stored program
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) algorithmic complexity
- Alonso Church (1903-1995) lambda calculus; Church-Turing thesis
- Kurt Friedrich Gödel (1906-1978) incompleteness theorem
- John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008) it from bit
- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) Turing machine; Turing test
- Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001) information theory
- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) quantum computation; Feynman diagrams
- Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017) self-referential logic
- Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010) fractals
- Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009) algorithmic probability; universal prior
- Marvin Lee Minsky (1927-2016) artificial intelligence; perceptron; useless box
- Stephen William Hawkins (1942-2018) Hawkings radiation
…and among those who are still around
- Roger Penrose (1931-) Quantum mind; Penrose tilings
- Judea Pearl (1936-) causal model
- Leonard Susskind (1940-) uncomplexity; string theory; loop quantum gravity
- Charles Bennett (1943-) logical depth; pebbling game; quantum computation models
- Paul Vitányi (1944-) algorithmic complexity
- Gregory Chaitin (1947-) algorithmic complexity; omega number
- Gerard ‘t Hooft (1947-) cellular automata quantum mechanics
- Wojciech Zurek (1951-) algorithmic information theory; thermodynamics of information; quantum darwinism
- Edward Witten (1951-) M-theory
- Cristian S. Calude (1952-) algorithmic information theory; quantum computing
- David Deutsch (1953-) Deutsch-Church-Turing principle; gate-model quantum computing; constructor theory
- Karl J. Friston (1959-) free energy principle
- Seth Lloyd (1960-) quantum computational limits
- David Wolpert (1961-) thermodynamics of Turing machines; no free lunch theorems
- John Baez (1961-) category theory
- Hans Briegel (1962-) projective simulation; quantum reinforcement learning; measurement based quantum computing
- Jürgen Schmidhuber (1963-) low complexity art; Gödel machines
- Ben Goertzel (1966-) artificial general intelligence; probabilistic logic networks
- Harry Buhrman (1966-) algorithmic information theory; quantum computing; computational biology
- Marcus Hutter (1967-) universal artificial general intelligence; AIXI-tl
- Scott Aaronson quantum complexity theory
- Ken Thompson - regular expressions; Unix; B
- Eray Özkural artificial general intelligence
- Alyssa Adams evolution; algorithmic complexity
- Paola Zizzi
- Vlatko Vedral
- Robert Hoehndorf
- Paul Davies
- Sara Walker - algorithmic origins of life
- Max Tegmark
- Sean Carroll
- Kristinn R. Thórisson
- Christopher A. Fields
- Stefan Wolf
- Chiara Marletto constructor theory
- Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Álvarez neural network based quantum state tomography
- Shaukat Ali
- Giulio Chiribella
- Robert Spekkens
- Gemma De las Cuevas
- Tor Lattimore
- Laurent Orseau
- Shane Legg
- Jens Eisert resource theory of uncomplexity
- Ronald de Wolf
- Scott Aaronson
- Christof Adami
- Mario Krenn
- Roger Melko
- Christopher A. Fuchs QBism
- Lucas Lamata quantum reinforcement learning
- Renato Renner quantum thought experiments
- Ilya Nemenman
- Bernhard Schölkopf
- Vedran Dunjko quantum reinforcement learning
- Bob Coecke applied category theory; categorical quantum mechanics
- Hector Zenil experimental algorithmic information theory; block decomposition method
- Stephen Wolfram cellular automata types, metamathematics
- Markus Müller quantum foundations using Solomonoff induction
- Camilo Miguel Signorelli
- Noson Yanofsky applied category theory
- Yoshihiro Maruyama applied category Theory
- Oron Shagrir
- Mark Sprevak
- Jack Copeland
- Ross King
- Vijay Balasubramanian
- Susan Schneider
- Klaas Landsman
- Karim Thebault
- Dustin Lazarovici
- Kamaludin Dingle
… the list keeps growing as the horizon of my knowledge widens.
AIT researchers
In his blog, Marcus Hutter curates a list of famous AIT (Algorithmic Information Theory) researchers. In this list, I intend to curate the famous as well as the young researchers of this rather niche field.