David Leigh Waltz, an American electrical engineer and significant contributor in several areas of Artificial Intelligence, president of the AAAI from 1997 to 1999, and currently director at Center for Computational Learning Systems [1], Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. on computer vision from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - his thesis originated the field of Constraint propagation [2], and he further originated the field of memory-based reasoning branch of Case-based reasoning [3]. His research interests include massively parallel information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning applications, especially to the electric power grid. As director of advanced information systems at Thinking Machines Corporation, where he worked from 1984 to 1993, he was involved in the StarTech project, and along with vice president John Mucci provided the managerial backing to allow Mark Bromley, Roger Frye, and Kurt Thearling to work on the massive parallel chess program with important design and programming help in getting StarTech running on the CM-5 [4].
David Waltz [5]

Selected Publications

• David Waltz (1972). Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows. Ph.D. thesis, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• David Waltz, Jordan B. Pollack (1985). Massively Parallel Parsing: A Strongly Interactive Model of Natural Language Interpretation. Cognitive Science Vol. 9, pdf
• Craig Stanfill, David Waltz (1986). Toward Memory-Based Reasoning. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 29, No. 12, pdf

External Links

• David Waltz from Wikipedia
• David Waltz's Home Page
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - David Waltz

References

1. ^ Center for Computational Learning Systems @ Columbia University
2. ^ David Waltz (1972). Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows. Ph.D. thesis, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
3. ^ Craig Stanfill and David Waltz (1986). Toward Memory-Based Reasoning. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 29, No. 12, pdf
4. ^ Bradley C. Kuszmaul (1994). Synchronized MIMD Computing. Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pdf, pp. 146, Acknowledgments
5. ^ David Waltz's Home Page
6. ^ DBLP: David L. Waltz

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