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[[FILE:davidlwaltz.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~waltz/| David Waltz <ref>[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~waltz/ David Waltz's Home Page]</ref> ]]
'''David Leigh Waltz''',(May 28, 1943 – March 22, 2012)<br/>was an American electrical engineer and significant contributor in several areas of [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], president of the [[AAAI]] from 1997 to 1999, and currently director at Center for Computational Learning Systems, [[Columbia University]]. He holds held a Ph.D. on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision computer vision] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] - his thesis originated the field of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_consistency constraint propagation] <ref>[[David Waltz]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41205 Generating Semantic Description from Drawings of Scenes with Shadows]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]</ref>,
and he further originated the field of memory-based reasoning branch of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-based_reasoning case-based reasoning] <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-stanfill-9a01b910/ Craig Stanfill], [[David Waltz]] ('''1986'''). ''Toward Memory-Based Reasoning''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 29, No. 12, [http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~waltz/Papers/Torward%20Memory-Based%20Reasoning-ACM%201986.pdf pdf]</ref>.
His research interests include massively parallel information retrieval, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining], and [[Learning|machine learning]] applications, especially to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid electric power grid].
