Ian H. Witten

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Ian H. Witten
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Honorary Doctorate from the Open University 2017[1]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
ThesisLearning to control (1976)
Notable studentsCraig Nevill-Manning

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.[2] He received his Ph.D. for Learning to Control in 1976 from the University of Essex, England (Electrical Engineering Science). Witten discovered temporal-difference learning, inventing the tabular TD(0),[3] the first temporal-difference learning rule for reinforcement learning. Witten is a co-creator of the Sequitur algorithm[4] and conceived and obtained funding for the development of the original WEKA software package for data mining.[5] Witten further made considerable contributions to the field of compression, creating novel algorithms for text and image compression with Alistair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. He is also one of the major contributors to the digital libraries field, and founder of the Greenstone Digital Library Software.[6]

Witten was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1996[7] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[8] in 1997.

In 2004 he received the International Federation for Information Processing Namur Award for "contributions to the awareness of social implications of information technology, and the need for an holistic approach in the use of information technology that takes account of social implications"[9] and in 2005 the Royal Society of New Zealand Hector Medal for contributions to many areas of computer science.[10]

Bibliography[]

  • Communicating with Microcomputers. London, England: Academic Press. December 1980. ISBN 978-0-12-760750-4.
  • Principles of Computer Speech. London, England: Academic Press. December 1982. ISBN 978-0-12-760760-3.
  • Making Computers Talk: an Introduction to Speech Synthesis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. December 1986. ISBN 978-0-13-545690-3.
  • Text Compression. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. December 1990. ISBN 978-0-13-911991-0.
  • The Reactive Keyboard. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. December 1992. ISBN 978-0-52-140375-7.
  • Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. December 1999. ISBN 978-1-55-860570-1.
  • Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology. Morgan Kaufmann. November 2006. ISBN 978-0-12-370609-6.
  • How to Build a Digital Library. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. December 2009. ISBN 978-0-12-374857-7.
  • Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann. October 2016. ISBN 978-0-12-804357-8.

See also[]

  • WEKA

References[]

  1. ^ "Honorary graduate cumulative list". Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Ian H. Witten: Resume". Cs.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  3. ^ Witten, I.H. (1977). "An Adaptive Optimal Controller for Discrete-Time Markov Environments". Information and Control. 34 (4): 286–295. doi:10.1016/s0019-9958(77)90354-0.
  4. ^ Nevill-Manning, Craig G.; Witten, Ian H. (1997). "Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences: A linear-time algorithm". arXiv:cs/9709102. Bibcode:1997cs........9102N. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Holmes, Geoffrey and Donkin, Andrew and Witten, Ian H (1994). "Weka: A machine learning workbench". Proc Australia and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems. Brisbane, Australia: 357–361.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Witten, I.H., McNab, R.J., Boddie, S.J. and Bainbridge, D. (2000). "Greenstone: A comprehensive open-source digital library software system". Proc Digital Libraries 2000. San Antonio, Texas: 113–121.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Recipients". Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Current Fellows « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  9. ^ "IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award". Prof. Jacques Berleur Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  10. ^ "Awards and Prizes - Department of Computer Science : University of Waikato". Cs.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 March 2017.

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