Biography:Daniel S. Weld
Daniel Sabey Weld | |
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| Born | September 13, 1960 Boston |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | MIT Yale University 1982[1] |
| Known for | automated planning and scheduling, software agents[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Thesis | Theories of Comparative Analysis (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomás Lozano-Pérez[3] |
Daniel Sabey "Dan" Weld is the Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he does research in automated planning and scheduling, software agents, and Internet information extraction.[4] He is a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm.[5]
Weld was born in 1960 in Boston. He attended high school at Phillips Academy, earned bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (1982) from Yale University, and a master's degree (1984) and PhD (1988) in Computer Science from MIT.[1][6] He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[7] and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[2]
Weld co-founded Netbot Incorporated (1996), which was acquired by Excite; AdRelevance (1998), which was acquired by Media Metrix and then by Nielsen NetRatings; and Nimble Technology (1999), which was acquired by Actuate.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Daniel S. Weld". http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/selfstudy/cvs/weld.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Elected AAAI Fellows". http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project". http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=71766. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ↑ Daniel S. Weld (2008-11-11). "Intelligence in Wikipedia". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOHbihYbhE. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- ↑ "Dan Weld". http://www.madrona.com/venture-capital-team/team-members.asp?name=Dan-Weld&member=11. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Daniel S. Weld". http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ↑ "ACM: Fellows Award/Daniel S Weld". http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3459088&srt=alpha&alpha=W. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
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