Daniel S. Weld

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Daniel Sabey Weld
Born (1960-09-13) September 13, 1960 (age 65)
Boston
Alma mater MIT
Yale University 1982 [1]
Known for automated planning and scheduling, software agents [2]
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Institutions University of Washington
Thesis Theories of Comparative Analysis  (1988)
Doctoral advisor Tomás Lozano-Pérez [3]

Daniel Sabey Weld is an American computer scientist who 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] He is a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm. [5]

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] [6] He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery [7] and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. [2]

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. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Daniel S. Weld" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  2. 1 2 "Elected AAAI Fellows" . Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  3. ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project" . Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  4. ↑ Daniel S. Weld (2008-11-11). "Intelligence in Wikipedia". YouTube . Retrieved 3 July 2009.
  5. ↑ "Dan Weld". Madrona. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Daniel S. Weld" . Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  7. ↑ "ACM: Fellows Award/Daniel S Weld" . Retrieved 2008-11-12.
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