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'''Ian Hugh Witten''',<br/>
a British, Canadian, and New Zealand computer scientist, and professor emeritus at the Department of Computer Science, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Waikato University of Waikato], and before, professor at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Calgary University of Calgary]. He received his Ph.D. from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Essex University of Essex] in 1976, where he also worked with [[Ron Atkin]] on chess.
His further contributions to research include the theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_system adaptive systems] along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit multi-armed bandit] problem, already introducing [[Temporal Difference Learning#TDLamba|TD(0)]] in 1977 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_H._Witten Ian H. Witten from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1977'''). ''An Adaptive Optimal Controller for Discrete-Time Markov Environments''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_Computation Information and Control], Vol. 34, No. 4, [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82451748.pdf pdf]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis speech synthesis], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing digital signal processing], [[Learning|machine learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression text compression].
Along with [[Mathematician#CNevillManning|Craig Nevill-Manning]], he is a co-creator of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequitur_algorithm Sequitur algorithm] <ref>[[Mathematician#CNevillManning|Craig Nevill-Manning]], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1997'''). ''[http://www.sequitur.info/jair Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences]''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9709102 arXiv:cs/9709102]</ref>.

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/publications.html Ian H. Witten: List of Publications]</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Witten:Ian_H=.html dblp: Ian H. Witten]</ref>
==1970 ...==
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1973'''). ''Finite-Time Performance of Some Two-Armed Bandit Controllers''. [[IEEE#SMC|IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics]], Vol. 3, No. 2 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit Multi-armed bandit from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Ron Atkin]], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1975'''). ''[https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b91106ea980eb48aa505f6b54c130707/dblp A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Positional Chess]''. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 7, No. 6
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1976'''). ''Generating Natural Speech from Text''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ecai/ecai76.html#Witten76 AISB 1976]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1976'''). ''Learning to Control''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Essex University of Essex]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1976'''). ''The apparent conflict between identification and control: a survey of the two-armed bandit problem''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Institute#The_Journal_of_The_Franklin_Institute Journal of the Franklin Institute], Vol. 301, Nos. 1-2
* [[Ron Atkin]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hartston William Hartston], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1976'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020737376800181 Fred CHAMP, Positional-Chess Analyst]''. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 8, No. 5
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1977'''). ''An Adaptive Optimal Controller for Discrete-Time Markov Environments''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_Computation Information and Control], Vol. 34, No. 4, [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82451748.pdf pdf]
==1980 ...==
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1980'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220459154_Algorithms_for_Adaptive_Linear_Prediction Algorithms for Adaptive Linear Prediction]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Journal The Computer Journal], Vol. 23, No. 1
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1985'''). ''[https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-18900-001 Elements of Computer Typography]''. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 23, No. 6
* [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/MacDonald:Bruce_A=.html Bruce A. MacDonald] ('''1988'''). ''[https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1989-13933-001 Using Concept Learning for Knowledge Acquisition]''. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Krawchuk:Brent_J= Brent J. Krawchuk], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1989'''). ''Explanation-based learning: its role in problem solving''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Experimental_and_Theoretical_Artificial_Intelligence Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 1, No. 1
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bell:Timothy_C=.html Timothy C. Bell], [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Cleary:John_G= John G. Cleary] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Principal-LZ-Variations_tbl1_220566639 Modeling for Text Compression]''. [[ACM#Surveys|ACM Computing Surveys]], Vol. 21, No. 4
==1990 ...==
* [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bell:Timothy_C=.html Timothy C. Bell] ('''1990'''). ''Source Models for Natural Language Text''. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 32, No. 5
* [[Mathematician#CNevillManning|Craig Nevill-Manning]], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1997'''). ''[http://www.sequitur.info/jair Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences]''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9709102 arXiv:cs/9709102]
* [[Mathematician#CNevillManning|Craig Nevill-Manning]], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1999'''). ''[Protein is Incompressible Protein is Incompressible]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/dcc/dcc99.html DCC 1999]
* [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Paynter:Gordon_W= Gordon W. Paynter], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/f/Frank:Eibe Eibe Frank], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/g/Gutwin:Carl Carl Gutwin], [[Mathematician#CNevillManning|Craig Nevill-Manning]] ('''1999'''). ''KEA: Practical Automatic Keyphrase Extraction''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9902007 arXiv:cs/9902007]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Ting:Kai_Ming Kai Ming Ting], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''1999'''). ''Issues in Stacked Generalization''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Artificial_Intelligence_Research JAIR], Vol. 10, [https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5466 arXiv:1105.5466]
* [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/f/Frank:Eibe Eibe Frank] ('''1999'''). ''[[#DataMining|Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations]]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann_Publishers Morgan Kaufmann]
==2000 ...==
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/y/Yeates:Stuart Stuart Yeates], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bainbridge_0001:David David Bainbridge], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2000'''). ''Using compression to identify acronyms in text''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/dcc/dcc2000.html DCC 2000], [https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0007003 arXiv:cs/0007003]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2002'''). ''How to build a digital library using open-source software''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/jcdl/jcdl2002.html JCDL 2002]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2002'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570866703000844 Adaptive text mining: inferring structure from sequences]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/jda/jda2.html Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Vol. 2, No. 2]
* [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/g/Gori:Marco Marco Gori], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/n/Numerico:Teresa Teresa Numerico] ('''2006'''). ''[https://www.elsevier.com/books/web-dragons/witten/978-0-12-370609-6 Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann_Publishers Morgan Kaufmann]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Medelyan:Olena Olena Medelyan], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Milne:David_N= David Milne], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Legg:Catherine Catherine Legg], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2008'''). ''Mining Meaning from Wikipedia''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4530 arXiv:0809.4530]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14556-8_3 Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/inex/inex2009.html INEX 2009]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_552 Classification]''. [https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-0-387-39940-9 Encyclopedia of Database Systems]
==2010 ...==
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2010'''). ''Wikipedia and How to Use It for Semantic Document Representation''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/webi/webi2010.html Web Intelligence 2010]
* [[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/f/Frank:Eibe Eibe Frank], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hall:Mark_A= Mark A. Hall] ('''2011'''). ''[[#DataMining|Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques]]''. 3rd Edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann_Publishers Morgan Kaufmann]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Milne:David_N= David N. Milne], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2011'''). ''A link-based visual search engine for Wikipedia''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/jcdl/jcdl2011.html JCDL 2011]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Milne:David_N= David N. Milne], [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2013'''). ''An open-source toolkit for mining Wikipedia''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 194
* <span id="DataMining"></span>[[Ian H. Witten]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/f/Frank:Eibe Eibe Frank], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hall:Mark_A= Mark A. Hall], [http://www.professeurs.polymtl.ca/christopher.pal/ Christopher Pal] ('''2016'''). ''[https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques]''. 4th Edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann_Publishers Morgan Kaufmann]
* [[Ian H. Witten]] ('''2018'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_552 Classification]''. [https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-8265-9 Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2nd Edition]

=External Links=
* [https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/index.html Ian H. Witten - Homepage]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_H._Witten Ian H. Witten from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=72506 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ian Witten]

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