David Waltz
David Leigh Waltz | |
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| Born | May 28, 1943 |
| Died | 22 March 2012 (aged 68) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Columbia University NEC Research Brandeis University Thinking Machines Corporation University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick Winston |
| Doctoral students | Tim Finin Jordan Pollack Stephen E. Cross Ron Sun |
| Website | www |
David Leigh Waltz (28 May 1943 – 22 March 2012) was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems. He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death, was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.