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Robert Mercer

his political donations and involvement with Cambridge Analytica

an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer
co-founded Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund
was co-CEO of the hedge fund firm and a major political donor

Robert Mercer is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor who played a role in early artificial intelligence research and development.

Milestones

1986

Expert Systems and the Knowledge Boom Research

Teaching Machines to Listen

IBM's speech recognition team, led by Fred Jelinek, proved that statistical methods could understand human speech better than any linguistic approach — famously quipping that firing linguists improved the system.

1986