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was a Polish American computer scientist and pioneer in [[Learning|machine learning]]. While working at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Academy_of_Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences] in the 60s, Michalski devised an early computer system that could [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting_recognition recognize handwriting]. After coming to the United States in 1970, working and teaching at [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] and from 1988 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University George Mason University], where he founded the Machine Learning Laboratory <ref>[http://www.mli.gmu.edu/ Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory at George Mason University]</ref>, he created applications in which computers could execute a form of reasoning, drawing conclusions from information supplied to them. In 1997, he developed an influential computational system he called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnable_Evolution_Model Learnable Evolution Model]. Ryszard Michalski died on September 20, 2007 of cancer, aged 70.