Ian H. Witten

Ian H. Witten
Residence	New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Essex
Thesis	Learning to control (1976)
Notable students	Craig Nevill-Manning

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. He received his Ph.D., Learning to Control in 1976 from the University of Essex, England (Electrical Engineering Science). Witten is a co-creator of the Sequitur algorithm and original creator of the WEKA software package for data mining.

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

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