Marcus Hutter has worked as an active software developer for various companies while at high school and university. A CAD program for 8 bit computers in Assembler is his most famous achievement from this time. He received a Masters degree in computer science in 1992 at the Munich University of Technology, Germany. After his PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1995, he developed algorithms in a medical software company for 5 years. From 2000 till 2006 he has published about 40 research papers, while working as a Senior Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute IDSIA in Lugano, Switzerland. In 2003 he completed his Habilitation at the Munich University of Technology, and has since then been an honorary official lecturer there. In his recently published book "Universal Artificial Intelligence" (Springer, EATCS, 2005), he unifies sequential decision theory with algorithmic information theory. In 2006 he became Associate Professor in the RSISE at the ANU and NICTA adjunct.
