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Irving John (Jack) Good (born
9 December 1916) is a British
statistician who worked also as a
cryptographer at
Bletchley Park. He was born
Isidore Jacob Gudak to a Jewish family in London. In his publications he's called
I. J. Good. He read
mathematics at
Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1938. He did research work under
G. H. Hardy and
Besicovitch, before moving to Bletchley Park in 1941 on completing his doctorate.
At Bletchley Park, he was initially in
Hut 8 under the supervision of
Alan Turing; he worked with
Donald Michie in
Max Newman's group on the
Fish ciphers, leading to the development of the
Colossus computer. After the war ended, he worked at the
University of Manchester and then at
GCHQ until 1959. He then had a variety of defence, consulting and academic positions. He was a prolific author of technical papers. In 1967 he moved to the United States, where he was appointed a research professor of statistics at
Virginia Tech. In 1969 he was appointed a University Distinguished Professor at
Virginia Tech, and in 2004 Emeritus University Distinguished Professor.
I. J. Good's "vanity" car license plate, hinting at his spylike wartime work, is "007 IJG". He is known for his work on
Bayesian statistics. He has published a number of books on
probability theory. He played
chess to county standard, and helped to popularise
Go, an Asian boardgame, through a 1965 article in
New Scientist (he had learned the rules from Turing). In 1965, he described a concept similar to today's meaning of
technological singularity, in that it included in it the advent of superhuman intelligence:
» "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make."
In a 1988 article for
Statistical Science, I. J. Good discusses the interface between the
philosophy of science and
statistics. In the article, he introduces the subject with review mainly of the writings of I. J. Good, "because I've read them all carefully."
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