David Waltz

David Leigh Waltz
Born(1943-05-28)May 28, 1943
Died22 March 2012(2012-03-22) (aged 68)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsColumbia University
NEC Research
Brandeis University
Thinking Machines Corporation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisGenerating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows (1972)
Doctoral advisorPatrick Winston[1]
Doctoral studentsTim Finin
Jordan Pollack
Stephen E. Cross
Ron Sun[1]
Websitewww.cs.columbia.edu/~waltz

David Leigh Waltz (28 May 1943 – 22 March 2012) was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems.[2] [3] He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death, was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.[4][5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b David Leigh Waltz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Mar 22 2012. "In Memoriam: David L. Waltz, CCLS Director | The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science - Columbia University". Engineering.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2012-03-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Gabriel, Richard P.; Finin, Tim; Sun, Ron (2012-08-01). "David L. Waltz: In Memoriam". AI Magazine. 33 (4): 19. doi:10.1609/aimag.v33i4.2440. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  4. ^ Waltz, David; Buchanan, Bruce G. (2009). "Automating Science: Computers with intelligence can design and run experiments, but learning from the results to generate subsequent experiments requires even more intelligence". Science. 324 (5923): 43–44. doi:10.1126/science.1172781. PMID 19342574. S2CID 36543867.
  5. ^ Understanding line drawings of scenes with shadows, in The Psychology of Computer Vision, P. H. Winston (Ed.), 1975
  6. ^ "David Waltz's Home Page". Archived from the original on 2013-05-28.
  7. ^ Waltz, D.; Pollack, J. (1985). "Massively parallel parsing: A strongly interactive model of natural language interpretation". Cognitive Science. 9: 51–74. doi:10.1016/S0364-0213(85)80009-4.
  8. ^ David L. Waltz at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata