David Leigh Waltz | |
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| Born | May 28, 1943 |
| Died | 22 March 2012 (aged 68) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | Columbia University NEC Research Brandeis University Thinking Machines Corporation University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick Winston[1] |
| Doctoral students | Tim Finin Jordan Pollack Stephen E. Cross Ron Sun[1] |
| Website | www |
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]
- ^ a b David Leigh Waltz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "In Memoriam: David L. Waltz, CCLS Director | The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science - Columbia University". Engineering.columbia.edu. March 22, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Understanding line drawings of scenes with shadows, in The Psychology of Computer Vision, P. H. Winston (Ed.), 1975
- ^ "David Waltz's Home Page". Archived from the original on 2013-05-28.
- ^ 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.
- ^ David L. Waltz at DBLP Bibliography Server
