Kurt Thearling, an American electrical engineer, analytics and data science executive with focus on data mining for CRM. While affiliated with the Thinking Machines Corporation in the 90s, where he helped to create Darwin, one of the first commercial data mining software applications able to analyze extremely large databases, and worked along with Thomas S. Ray on the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life, he also contributed to computer chess with the first message passing software for the StarTech project. John Mucci and David Waltz 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 [1] .
Kurt Thearling [2]

Selected Publications

• Bartlett Mel, Stephen Omohundro, Arch D. Robison, Steven Skiena, Kurt Thearling, Stephen Wolfram, Luke Young (1988). Tablet: The Personal Computer of the Year 2000. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 6
• Bartlett Mel, Stephen Omohundro, Arch D. Robison, Steven Skiena, Kurt Thearling, Stephen Wolfram, Luke Young (1988). Academic Computing in the Year 2000. Academic Computing
• Kurt Thearling, Stephen Smith (1992). An Improved Supercomputer Sorting Benchmark. Proceedings of Supercomputing '92
• Kurt Thearling (1992). Putting Artificial Life to Work. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2, R. Männer and B. Manderic (eds.), North-Holland
• Kurt Thearling, Thomas S. Ray (1994). Evolving Multi-cellular Artificial Life. Artificial Life IV, R. Brooks and P. Maes (eds.), MIT Press
• Kurt Thearling, Thomas S. Ray (1997). Evolving Parallel Computation. Complex Systems, Vol. 10, No. 3
• Alex Berson, Stephen Smith, Kurt Thearling (2000). Building Data Mining Applications for CRM. McGraw-Hill, amazon

External Links

• Data Mining and Analytic Technologies (Kurt Thearling)
• Kurt Thearling | LinkedIn

References

1. ^ 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
2. ^ Data Mining and Analytic Technologies (Kurt Thearling)
3. ^ Kurt Thearling's Publications

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