Tom M. Mitchell
Tom Michael Mitchell (born August 9, 1951 in Blossburg , Pennsylvania ) is an American computer scientist specializing in machine learning , artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.
Mitchell graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his doctorate in 1979 under Bruce Buchanan at Stanford University ( Version Spaces: An Approach to Concept Learning ). He was assistant professor from 1978 and then associate professor at Rutgers University and from 1986 professor at Carnegie Mellon University and from 2006 first head of the machine learning department. In 1999 he became E. Fredkin Professor and in 2009 University Professor .
He is the project manager for the Never-Ending Language Learning (NELL) system, which is supposed to answer questions asked in natural language without human intervention, similar to Watson at IBM .
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence . In 1984 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the NSF and in 1983 an IJCAI Computers and Thought Award .
Fonts (selection)
- Machine Learning, McGraw Hill 1997, 2006
- with Jaime G. Carbonell, Ryszard S. Michalski: Machine Learning: A Guide to Current Research, Kluwer 1986
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Tom M. Mitchell in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom M. Mitchell in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitchell, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitchell, Tom Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blossburg, Pennsylvania |