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'''Kurt H. Thearling''',<br/>
an American electrical engineer, analytics and data science executive with focus on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management CRM]. While affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation Thinking Machines Corporation] in the 90s, where he helped to create [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Data_Mining#History Darwin], one of the first commercial data mining software applications able to analyze extremely large databases, and worked along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray Thomas S. Ray] on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_%28computer_simulation%29 Tierra] project, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation computer simulation] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life artificial life], he also contributed to computer chess with the first [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface message passing] software for the [[StarTech]] project. [[John Mucci]] and [[David Waltz]] provided the managerial backing to allow [[Mark Bromley]], [[Roger Frye]], and Kurt Thearling to work on the massive parallel chess program.
=StarTech=
Roger E. Frye contributed to the [[StarTech]] project, as mentioned by [[Bradley Kuszmaul]] in his thesis acknowledgments <ref>[[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] ('''1994'''). ''Synchronized MIMD Computing''. Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/thesis-kuszmaul.pdf pdf], pp. 146, Acknowledgments</ref>:
[[Mark Bromley]], [[Roger Frye]], and [[Kurt Thearling]] provided important design and programming help in getting StarTech running on the [[Connection Machine|CM-5]].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Thearling:Kurt_H= dblp: Kurt H. Thearling]</ref>
==1988 ...==
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Bartlett_W._Mel Bartlett Mel], [[Mathematician#SOmohundro|Stephen Omohundro]], [[Arch D. Robison]], [[Steven Skiena]], [[Kurt Thearling]], [[Mathematician#SWolfram|Stephen Wolfram]], [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=41147 Luke T. Young] ('''1988'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62959.62960 Tablet: The Personal Computer of the Year 2000]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 31, No. 6, [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880008883.pdf pdf preprint]
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Bartlett_W._Mel Bartlett Mel], [[Mathematician#SOmohundro|Stephen Omohundro]], [[Arch D. Robison]], [[Steven Skiena]], [[Kurt Thearling]], [[Mathematician#SWolfram|Stephen Wolfram]], [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=41147 Luke T, Young] ('''1988'''). ''[Academic Computing in the Year 2000''. Academic Computing, [https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/academic-computing-year-2000.pdf pdf]
==1990 ...==
* [[Kurt Thearling]], [http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100076964&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=67060398&cftoken=10301984 Stephen Smith] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/1992/2630/00/00236714.pdf An Improved Supercomputer Sorting Benchmark]''. [https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/1992/2630/00/index.html Supercomputing '92]
* [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Putting-Artificial-Life-to-Work-Thearling/57c72a9dd13cf212c3084ed95cde2798ceea6824 Putting Artificial Life to Work]''. [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=573321 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier North-Holland]
* [[Kurt Thearling]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray Thomas S. Ray] ('''1994'''). ''[http://life.ou.edu/pubs/alife4/ Evolving Multi-cellular Artificial Life]''. Artificial Life IV, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
* [[Kurt Thearling]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray Thomas S. Ray] ('''1997'''). ''[http://life.ou.edu/pubs/ComplexSystems/ Evolving Parallel Computation]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Systems_%28journal%29 Complex Systems], Vol. 10, No. 3
* [https://www.amazon.com/Alex-Berson/e/B001H6O95I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 Alex Berson], [https://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100076964&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0 Stephen Smith], [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''1999'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=555454 Building Data Mining Applications for CRM]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill]
==2000 ...==
* [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''2005'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-25465-X_60 Data Mining for CRM]''. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b107408 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-09823-4_62 Data Mining for CRM]''. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-09823-4 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook], 2nd edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtthearling/ Kurt Thearling | LinkedIn]
=References=
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[[Category:Researcher|Thearling]]
[[FILE:KurtThearling.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtthearling/| Kurt Thearling <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtthearling/ Kurt Thearling | LinkedIn]</ref> ]]
'''Kurt H. Thearling''',<br/>
an American electrical engineer, analytics and data science executive with focus on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management CRM]. While affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation Thinking Machines Corporation] in the 90s, where he helped to create [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Data_Mining#History Darwin], one of the first commercial data mining software applications able to analyze extremely large databases, and worked along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray Thomas S. Ray] on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_%28computer_simulation%29 Tierra] project, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation computer simulation] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life artificial life], he also contributed to computer chess with the first [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface message passing] software for the [[StarTech]] project. [[John Mucci]] and [[David Waltz]] provided the managerial backing to allow [[Mark Bromley]], [[Roger Frye]], and Kurt Thearling to work on the massive parallel chess program.
=StarTech=
Roger E. Frye contributed to the [[StarTech]] project, as mentioned by [[Bradley Kuszmaul]] in his thesis acknowledgments <ref>[[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] ('''1994'''). ''Synchronized MIMD Computing''. Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/thesis-kuszmaul.pdf pdf], pp. 146, Acknowledgments</ref>:
[[Mark Bromley]], [[Roger Frye]], and [[Kurt Thearling]] provided important design and programming help in getting StarTech running on the [[Connection Machine|CM-5]].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Thearling:Kurt_H= dblp: Kurt H. Thearling]</ref>
==1988 ...==
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Bartlett_W._Mel Bartlett Mel], [[Mathematician#SOmohundro|Stephen Omohundro]], [[Arch D. Robison]], [[Steven Skiena]], [[Kurt Thearling]], [[Mathematician#SWolfram|Stephen Wolfram]], [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=41147 Luke T. Young] ('''1988'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62959.62960 Tablet: The Personal Computer of the Year 2000]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 31, No. 6, [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880008883.pdf pdf preprint]
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Bartlett_W._Mel Bartlett Mel], [[Mathematician#SOmohundro|Stephen Omohundro]], [[Arch D. Robison]], [[Steven Skiena]], [[Kurt Thearling]], [[Mathematician#SWolfram|Stephen Wolfram]], [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=41147 Luke T, Young] ('''1988'''). ''[Academic Computing in the Year 2000''. Academic Computing, [https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/academic-computing-year-2000.pdf pdf]
==1990 ...==
* [[Kurt Thearling]], [http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100076964&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=67060398&cftoken=10301984 Stephen Smith] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/1992/2630/00/00236714.pdf An Improved Supercomputer Sorting Benchmark]''. [https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/1992/2630/00/index.html Supercomputing '92]
* [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Putting-Artificial-Life-to-Work-Thearling/57c72a9dd13cf212c3084ed95cde2798ceea6824 Putting Artificial Life to Work]''. [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=573321 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier North-Holland]
* [[Kurt Thearling]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray Thomas S. Ray] ('''1994'''). ''[http://life.ou.edu/pubs/alife4/ Evolving Multi-cellular Artificial Life]''. Artificial Life IV, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
* [[Kurt Thearling]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray Thomas S. Ray] ('''1997'''). ''[http://life.ou.edu/pubs/ComplexSystems/ Evolving Parallel Computation]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Systems_%28journal%29 Complex Systems], Vol. 10, No. 3
* [https://www.amazon.com/Alex-Berson/e/B001H6O95I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 Alex Berson], [https://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100076964&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0 Stephen Smith], [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''1999'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=555454 Building Data Mining Applications for CRM]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill]
==2000 ...==
* [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''2005'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-25465-X_60 Data Mining for CRM]''. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b107408 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Kurt Thearling]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-09823-4_62 Data Mining for CRM]''. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-09823-4 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook], 2nd edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtthearling/ Kurt Thearling | LinkedIn]
=References=
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