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To Dr. Ryszard Michalski, the man who coined the term "Machine Learning", did a lot to advance the field and who, sadly, passed away on September 20, 2015. When in 1990 I first visited Dr. Ryszard Michalski, the famous AI researcher and the man who coined the term "Machine Learning", his research division in George Mason University (Virginia) was called "The Center for Artificial Intelligence." Two years later, I visited this place again, and now it was called "The Center for Machine Learning." I was curious and asked Dr. Michalski why he renamed his center in spite of no visible change of direction in his research and that of his colleagues. He smiled and said that in the eyes of many people, the term "AI" had discredited itself by overpromise.