ianhwitten

Username: ianhwitten

Participant details

	Network Member	Ian H. Witten
	Organisation/Institution
	Department/Centre	Department of Computer Science
	Lab
	Website	http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw
	Research area	Information Retrieval
	Research keywords	programming by example, text compression, machine learning, data mining, digital libraries, interactive systems.

Research Interests

Ian H. Witten is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand where he directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include language learning, information retrieval, and machine learning. He has published widely, including several books, such as Managing Gigabytes (1999), How to build a digital library (2003), Data Mining (2005) and Web Dragons (2007). He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He received the 2004 IFIP Namur Award, a biennial honour accorded for "outstanding contribution with international impact to the awareness of social implications of information and communication technology" and (with the rest of the Weka team) the 2005 SIGKDD Service Award for "an outstanding contribution to the data mining field" and in 2006 the Royal Society of New Zealand Hector Medal for "an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the mathematical and information sciences."

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