Ian Witten
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. in 1976 from the University of Essex, England (Electrical Engineering Science).[2] Witten is a co-creator of the Sequitur algorithm[3] and original creator of the WEKA software package for data mining.
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. January 20, 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
- ^ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/resume.html
- ^ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/resume.html
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Nevill-Manning, C.G.; Witten, I.H. (1997). "Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences: A linear-time algorithm". arXiv:cs/9709102.
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- ^ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/research/awards-and-prizes
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