Peter Flach

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Peter Flach
Born
Pieter Adriaan Flach

Sneek, Netherlands
Scientific career
Institutions University of Bristol
Website www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach

Pieter Adriaan Flach (born 8 April 1961, Sneek) is a Dutch computer scientist and a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. [1] He is author of the acclaimed Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012). [2]

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Education

Flach received an MSc Electrical Engineering from Universiteit Twente in 1987 and a PhD in Computer Science from Tilburg University in 1995.[ citation needed ]

Research

Flach's research interests are in data mining and machine learning.

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