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David Leigh Waltz, an American electrical engineer and significant contributor in several areas of artificial intelligence, president of the AAAI from 1997 to 1999, and currently director at Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. on computer vision from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - his thesis originated the field of constraint propagation , and he further originated the field of memory-based reasoning branch of case-based reasoning. His research interests include massively parallel information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning applications, especially to the electric power grid. As director of advanced information systems at Thinking Machines Corporation, where he worked from 1984 to 1993, he was involved in the StarTech project, and along with vice president John Mucci provided the managerial backing to allow Mark Bromley, Roger Frye, and Kurt Thearling to work on the massive parallel chess program with important design and programming help in getting StarTech running on the CM-5.

=Selected Publications=

1972 ...

 * David Waltz (1972). Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows. Ph.D. thesis, MIT
 * David Waltz (1977). Natural language interfaces. SIGART Newsletter, Vol. 61
 * David Waltz (1978). An English Language Query Answering System for a Large Relational Data Base. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21, No. 7

1980 ...

 * David Waltz (1983). Artificial Intelligence: An Assessment of the State-of-the-Art and Recommendations for Future Directions. AI Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3
 * David Waltz, Jordan B. Pollack (1985). Massively Parallel Parsing: A Strongly Interactive Model of Natural Language Interpretation. Cognitive Science Vol. 9, pdf
 * Craig Stanfill, David Waltz (1986). Toward Memory-Based Reasoning. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 29, No. 12, pdf
 * David Waltz (1987). Applications of the Connection Machine. IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 1
 * David Waltz, Craig Stanfill (1988). Artificial Intelligence Related Research on the Connection Machine. FGCS 1988
 * Xiru Zhang, Michael McKenna, Jill P. Mesirov, David Waltz (1989). An Efficient Implementation of the Back-propagation Algorithm on the Connection Machine CM-2. NIPS 1989

1990 ...

 * Xiru Zhang, Michael McKenna, Jill P. Mesirov, David Waltz (1990). The backpropagation algorithm on grid and hypercube architectures. Parallel Computing, Vol. 14, No. 3
 * David Waltz (1990). Massively Parallel AI. AAAI 1990
 * David Waltz (1993). Massively Parallel AI. International Journal of High Speed Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3
 * David Waltz (1997). Artificial Intelligence: Realizing the Ultimate Promises of Computing. AI Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3

2000 ...

 * David Waltz ('2006). AI's 10 to Watch. [[IEEE#Expert|Intelligent Systems], Vol. 21, No. 3
 * David Waltz ('2006). Evolution, Sociobiology, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence. [[IEEE#Expert|Intelligent Systems], Vol. 21, No. 3

=External Links=
 * David Waltz from Wikipedia
 * David Waltz's Home Page
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - David Waltz

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