Daniel S. Weld

Daniel Sabey Weld
Born September 13, 1960
Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality United States
Fields Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Institutions University of Washington
Alma mater MIT
Yale University 1982[1]
Doctoral advisor Tomás Lozano-Pérez[2]
Doctoral students J. Scott Penberthy, Franz Amador, Anthony Barrett, Keith Golden, Nick Kushmerick, Marc Friedman, Tessa Lau, Zachary Ives, Corin Anderson, Mausam, Krzysztof Gajos[2]
Known for automated planning and scheduling, software agents[3]

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 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.[1][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 "Daniel S. Weld". http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/selfstudy/cvs/weld.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 
  2. ^ a b "The Mathematics Genealogy Project". http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=71766. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 
  3. ^ a b "Elected AAAI Fellows". http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 
  4. ^ Daniel S. Weld (2008-11-11). "Intelligence in Wikipedia". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOHbihYbhE. Retrieved 7-3-2009. 
  5. ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld". http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 
  6. ^ "ACM: Fellows Award/Daniel S Weld". http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3459088&srt=alpha&alpha=W. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 

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