Ian H. Witten

Ian H. Witten is a computer scientist at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London who graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MA (First Class Honours) in mathematics in 1969 and an M.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Calgary, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, in 1970.^[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Essex, England (Electrical Engineering Science).^[2] Witten is a co-creator of the Sequitur algorithm^[3] and original creator of the WEKA software package for data mining.

Witten is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand^[4] and a recipient of the Hector Memorial Medal which was awarded to him in 2005.^[5]

Bibliography

• Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann. January 20, 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-374856-0. 
• Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology. Morgan Kaufmann. November 2006. ISBN 978-0-12-370609-6. 

See also

• WEKA

References

External links

• http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw Academic homepage
• "If You've Got Data, Mine It Yourself: Ian Witten on Data Mining, Weka, and his MOOC".