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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 information retrieval, machine learning, text
compression, and programming by demonstration. He has
published widely in these areas, including several books,
the most recent being Managing Gigabytes (1999), How
to build a digital library (2003), Data Mining (2005)
and Web Dragons (2007), all from Morgan Kaufmann. He
received an MA in mathematics from Cambridge Unversity,England;
an MSc in computer science from the University of Calgary,
Canada; and a PhD in electrical engineering from Essex
University, England. 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 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.” |
