Events

Ramsey’s life and work – a seminar of the History of AI

Professor Cheryl Misak will speak about life of Frank Ramsey at 10:00 am EST, June 6, 2020 on AIWS House, a part of the History of AI, at AIWS.net. Frank Ramsey, a philosopher, economist, and mathematician, was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Professor Judea Pearl, Mentor of AIWS.net, said: “Ramsey was definitely one of the clearest forerunners of subjective probabilities and the revival of Bayes statistics in the 20th century, which influenced the 1970-90 debate on how to represent uncertainty in AI systems.” Cheryl Misak is a Professor of Philosophy and former Vice President and Provost at the University of Toronto. She is the author numerous papers and five books: Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and...