Marcus Hutter

Marcus Hutter (born April 14, 1967 in Munich ) is a German computer scientist and professor at the Australian National University .

Life

Hutter studied computer science and physics at the Technical University of Munich . He did his doctorate in 1996 under Harald Fritzsch on instantons in quantum chromodynamics . In 2000 he became a member of Jürgen Schmidhuber's group at the Swiss AI laboratory IDSIA . There he developed a mathematical theory of optimal universal intelligence based on Kolmogorov complexity and Ray Solomonoff's theory of universal inductive inference. In 2006 he accepted a chair at the Australian National University in Canberra . The Hutter Prize named after him has been awarded since the same year .

Publications

• Instantons in the QCD . Dissertation , 1995.
• The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems . In: International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. 13, No. 3, 2002, pp. 431-443.
• Optimality of Universal Bayesian Sequence Prediction for General Loss and Alphabet . In: Journal of Machine Learning Research. 4, 2003, pp. 971-1000.
• Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability . Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-22139-5 .
• On generalized computable universal priors and their convergence . In: Theoretical Computer Science. 364, No. 1, 2006, pp. 27-41.
• ed. together with Scott Sanner: Recent advances in reinforcement learning: 9th European Workshop, EWRL 2011, Athens, Greece, September 9-11, 2011, Revised selected papers . Springer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-29945-2 . Selected essays from the 9th European Colloquium on Reinforcement Learning from 2011.

Web links

• Hutter's website (in English)
• Hutter Prize for Lossless Data Compression of Human Knowledge (in English)