Ian Witten
Ian H. Witten | |
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![]() Witten having received an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University in September 2017 | |
Alma mater | University of Essex |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Learning to control (1976) |
Notable students | Craig Nevill-Manning |
Ian H. Witten is a computer scientist at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London who graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MA (First Class Honours) in mathematics in 1969 and an M.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Calgary, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, in 1970.[1] He received his Ph.D. for Learning to Control in 1976 from the University of Essex, England (Electrical Engineering Science). Witten discovered temporal-difference learning, inventing the tabular TD(0),[2] the first temporal-difference learning rule for reinforcement learning.[1] Witten is a co-creator of the sequitur algorithm[3] and original creator of the WEKA software package for data mining.[citation needed]. Witten further made considerable contributions to the field of compression, creating novel algorithms for text and image compression with Alistair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. He is also one of the major contributors to the digital libraries field, and founder of the New Zealand Digital Library project.
Witten is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[4] and a recipient of the Hector Memorial Medal which was awarded to him in 2005.[5]
Bibliography
- Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann. 20 January 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-374856-0.
- Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology. Morgan Kaufmann. November 2006. ISBN 978-0-12-370609-6.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Ian H. Witten: Resume". Cs.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ Witten, I.H. (1977). "An Adaptive Optimal Controller for Discrete-Time Markov Environments". Information and Control. 34 (4): 286–295. doi:10.1016/s0019-9958(77)90354-0.
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Nevill-Manning, Craig G.; Witten, Ian H. (1997). "Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences: A linear-time algorithm". arXiv:cs/9709102. Bibcode:1997cs........9102N.
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(help) - ^ "Current Fellows « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ "Awards and Prizes - Department of Computer Science : University of Waikato". Cs.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
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