1. Ian Hugh Witten was a computer scientist at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
11 Facts About Ian Witten
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Ian Witten was a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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Ian Witten graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MA in mathematics in 1969 and a Master of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Calgary, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, in 1970.
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Ian Witten received his PhD in 1976 from the University of Essex.
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In 1971, Ian Witten married Pamela Foden at the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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Ian Witten discovered temporal-difference learning, inventing the tabular TD, the first temporal-difference learning rule for reinforcement learning.
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Ian Witten was a co-creator of the Sequitur algorithm and conceived and obtained funding for the development of the original WEKA software package for data mining.
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Ian Witten is one of the major contributors to the digital libraries field, and founder of the Greenstone Digital Library Software.
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Ian Witten was elected a ACM Fellow in 1996 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997.
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Ian Witten retired from the University of Waikato in 2014, and was accorded the title of professor emeritus.
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Ian Witten was diagnosed with cancer in November 2022, and died on 5 May 2023.