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Daniel Sabey Weld
BornSeptember 13, 1960
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityUnited States
Alma materMIT
Yale University 1982[2]
Known forautomated planning and scheduling, software agents[3]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Doctoral advisorTomás Lozano-Pérez[1]
Doctoral studentsJ. Scott Penberthy, Franz Amador, Anthony Barrett, Keith Golden, Nick Kushmerick, Marc Friedman, Tessa Lau, Zachary Ives, Corin Anderson, Mausam, Krzysztof Gajos[1]

Daniel S. 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].

Weld 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.[2][5] He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[6] and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[3].

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.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  2. ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  3. ^ a b "Elected AAAI Fellows". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  4. ^ Daniel S. Weld (11-11-2008). "Intelligence in Wikipedia". Retrieved 7-3-2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Unknown parameter |collection= ignored (help)
  5. ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  6. ^ ""ACM: Fellows Award/Daniel S Weld". Retrieved 2008-11-12.