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a British statistician and computer pioneer. During [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II], Good worked with [[Alan Turing]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conel_Hugh_O%27Donel_Alexander Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park Bletchley Park], with [[Donald Michie]] and [[Shaun Wylie]] et al. in the section [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newmanry Newmanry] headed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Newman Max Newman], contributing to crack the German [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_SZ_40/42 Lorenz cipher] <ref>[[Jack Good]], [[Donald Michie]], [[Mathematician#GTimms|Geoffrey Timms]] ('''1945'''). ''[http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/archive/index/tunnyreportindex.html General Report on Tunny]'' from [http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/index.html The Turing Archive for the History of Computing]</ref> <ref>[[The Computer History Museum#Codebreaking|From Codebreaking to Computing - Video]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. After the war he worked at the [[University of Manchester]] and [[Atlas Computer Laboratory]], and had a variety of defense, consulting and academic positions, until he came to the United States in 1967, becoming a University Distinguished Professor at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Polytechnic_Institute_and_State_University Virginia Tech]. In 1965 he originated the concept of an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Intelligence_explosion intelligence explosion], now known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity technological singularity] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Institute_for_Artificial_Intelligence Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence from WikiepediaWikipedia]</ref>, which anticipates the eventual advent of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence superhuman intelligence] <ref>[[Jack Good]] ('''1965'''). ''[http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/pages/ultraintelligentmachine.html Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine]''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/ac/ac6.html Advances in Computers, Vol. 6], [http://www.stat.vt.edu/tech_reports/2005/GoodTechReport.pdf pdf], [http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Good-Speculations-Concerning-the-First-Ultraintelligent-Machine.pdf pdf]</ref>. Jack Good died on April 5, 2009, aged 92 <ref>[http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2009&itemno=276 In Memoriam: I. J. Good, University Distinguished Professor and pioneer of modern statistics], Obituary from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Polytechnic_Institute_and_State_University Virginia Tech]</ref>.