David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions across several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems. He held positions in both academia and industry, and at the time of his death was a professor of computer science at Columbia University, where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.
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What did David Waltz's doctoral dissertation contribute to computer vision?
His dissertation initiated the field of constraint propagation.
Waltz received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, working in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a student of Marvin Minsky. His dissertation on computer vision initiated the field of constraint propagation, which allowed a computer program to generate a detailed three-dimensional view of an object given a two dimensional drawing with shadows.
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1. Wikidata: David Waltz
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2. Wikipedia: David Waltz
Biography, birth
Waltz was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1943.
Biography, death
David Waltz died in the University Medical Center at Princeton, New Jersey on March 22, 2012 from brain cancer; he was 68 years old.
Biography, date of death
David Waltz died in the University Medical Center at Princeton, New Jersey on March 22, 2012 from brain cancer
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