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James A. Landay | |
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| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | CMU University of California, Berkeley 1982[2] |
| Known for | automated planning and scheduling, software agents[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Human–computer interaction |
| Institutions | Cornell NYC Tech |
| Thesis | Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brad Myers[1] |
| Doctoral students | J. Scott Penberthy, Franz Amador, Anthony Barrett, Keith Golden, Nick Kushmerick, Marc Friedman, Tessa Lau, Zachary Ives, Corin Anderson, Mausam, Krzysztof Gajos[1] |
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]
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.[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
[edit]- ^ a b "The Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ a b "Elected AAAI Fellows". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ Daniel S. Weld (2008-11-11). "Intelligence in Wikipedia". Retrieved 7-3-2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ "ACM: Fellows Award/Daniel S Weld". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
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