Irving John (Jack) Good

Books Authored or Edited

• Good, I. J., Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications, Univ. of Minn. Press., Minneapolis (1983).
• Good, I. J., The Estimation of Probabilities. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1965).
• The Scientist Speculates (I. J. Good, A. J., Mayne, and J. Maynard Smith, eds.) pp. 120-132. Basic Books, New York (1963).
• Good, I. J., Probability and the Weighing of Evidence. Hafner, New York (1950).

Journal or Proceedings Papers

Artificial Intelligence

• Good, I. J., "The Chief Entities", Cosmic Search Spring 1980, 13-16
• Good, I. J., "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine", in Advances in Computers, vol 6, Franz L. Alt and Morris Rubinoff, eds, pp 3l-88, 1965, Academic Press
• Good, I. J., The human preserve. Spaceflight in press (1965).
• Good, I. J., The social implications of artificial intelligence. The Scientist Speculates (I. J. Good, A. J., Mayne, and J. Maynard Smith, eds.) pp. 192–198. Basic Books, New York, 1963.
• Good, I. J., "The relevance of semantics to the economical construction of an artificial intelligence". In Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Publ. No. S-142, New York (January 1963), pp. 157–168.
• Good, I. J., The mind-body problem, or could an android feel pain? In Theories of the Mind (J. M. Scher, ed.), pp. 490-518. Glencee, New York, 1962.
• Good, I. J., Speculations on perceptrons and other Automata. Research Rept. No. RC-115, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York (1959).
• Good, I. J., Could a machine make probability judgments? Computers Automation 8, 14–16 and 24–26 (1959).

Probability Theory

• Osteyee, D. B. and I. J. Good, "Information, Weight of Evidence, the Singularity between Probability Measures and Signal Detection", Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Springer-Verlag, New York (1974).
• Good, I. J., Weight of evidence, causality, and false-alarm probabilities. In Information Theory: Fourth London Symposium (E. C. Cherry, ed.), pp. 125–136. Butterwortb, London and Washington, D.C. (1961).
• Good, I. J., Kinds of probability. Science 129, 443–447 (1959). Italian translation in L’Industria (1959).

Other

• Good, I. J., How rational should a manager be? Management Sci. 8, 383– 393 (1962). To be reprinted, with minor corrections, in Executive Readings in Management Science, Vol. I (M. K. Starr, ed.). Macmillan, New York (1965).
• Good, I. J., Maximum entropy for hypothesis formulation, especially for multidimensional contingency tables. Ann. Math. Statist. 34, 911–934 (1963).
• Good, I. J., Botryological speculations. In The Scientist Speculates (I. J. Good, A. J., Mayne, and J. Maynard Smith, eds.) pp. 120-132. Basic Books, New York (1963).
• Good, I. J., Cascade theory and the molecular weight averages of the Sol fraction. Proc. Roy. Soc. A272, 54–59 (1963).
• Good, I. J., Review of a book by J. Wolfowitz. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. A125, 643–645 (1962).
• Good, I. J., A causal calculus, Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 11, 305-319 (1961); 12, 43–51 (1961); 13, 88 (1962).
• Good, I. J., Effective sampling rates for signal detection or can the Gaussian model be salvaged? Inform. Control 3, 116–140 (1960).
• Good, I. J., The interaction algorithm and practical Fourier analysis, J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B20, 361–372 (1958); B22, 372–375 (1960).
• Good, I. J., Proc. Intern. Conf. Sci. Inform., pp. 1404 and 1406. Natl. Acad. Sci. and Natl. Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1959.
• Good, I. J., Speculations concerning information retrieval. Research Rept. No. RC-78, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York (1958).
• Good, I. J., How much science can you have at your fingertips? IBM J. Res. Develop. 2, 282–288 (1958).
• Good, I. J., Review of a book by G. S. Brown. Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 9, 254 (1958).
• Good, I. J., Distribution of word frequencies. Nature 179, 595 (1957).
• Good, I. J., On the estimation of small frequencies in contingency tables. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B18, 113–124 (1956).
• Good, I. J., Some terminology and notation in information theory, Proc. IEE (London) Part C (3) 103, 200–204 (1956).
• Good, I. J., On the population frequencies of species and the estimation of population parameters. Biometrika 40, 237–264 (1953).
• Good, I. J., in Communication Theory (W. Jackson, ed.), p. 267. Butterworth, London and Washington, D.C. (1953).
• Good, I. J., Rational decisions. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B14, 107–114 (1952).

WWW References

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