David L. Waltz, in Memoriam

作者：Gabriel Richard P^*; Finin Tim; Sun Ron

来源：AI Magazine, 2012, 33(4): 19-21.

DOI：10.1609/aimag.v33i4.2440

David L. Waltz (1943-2012), was director, Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS), Columbia University, and a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Waltz served as Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) president from 1997 to 1999, was a Fellow of AAAI and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and former chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART). Prior to joining CCLS, he was president of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, and from 1984-1993 was director of Advanced Information Systems at Thinking Machines Corporation and a professor of computer science at Brandeis University. A celebration of his life was held in the spring of 2012, and a symposium in his honor was held September 23, 2012, at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

• 出版日期2012