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Ian H. Witten
Ian 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), Data Mining (2005), Web Dragons (2007), and How to Build a Digital Library (2003). 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.” In 2006, he received the Royal Society of New Zealand Hector Medal for “an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the mathematical and information sciences,” and in 2010, was officially inaugurated as a “World Class New Zealander” in Research, Science, and Technology.
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