Irving John Good

Irving John Good is a British mathematician and statistician who served as University Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from 1967 until his retirement in 1994. He is best known for originating the concept of the intelligence explosion in his 1965 paper Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine, as well as for his foundational contributions to Bayesian statistics and his wartime cryptanalysis work at Bletchley Park alongside Alan Turing. He passed away on April 5, 2009, in Radford, Virginia.