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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Daniel S. Weld, Ph.D.
Education
Yale University
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Computer Science (Cum Laude)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
B.A.
1982
B.S.
1982
M.S. 1984
Ph.D. 1988
Appointments
WRF/T.J. Cable Professor, Department of CSE, University of Washington,
Professor, Department of CSE, University of Washington,
Associate Professor, Department of CSE, University of Washington,
Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, University of Washington,
Research Assistant, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
1999 – now
1997 – 1999
1993 – 1997
1988 – 1993
1982 – 1988
Honors
Best Paper Prize, CHI-08
Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award, CIKM-07
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow, American Association of Artificial Intelligence
WRF/T.J. Cable Endowed Professorship, University of Washington
Edge Award for best use of intelligent technology (Jango), WebINNOVATION
New Innovator's Award (for Jango), CommerceNet
Award for Technological Innovation in Software (Finalist), Discover Magazine
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
John E. Bierwirth Scholarship, Yale University
Wilfred Freeman Fellowship, Phillips Academy
2008
2007
2006
1999
1999
1997
1997
1995
1990
1989
1979 – 1982
1978
Publications
Five Publications Closely Related to the Proposed Talk
1. Wu, F. and Weld, D., “Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Ontology, 17th International
World-Wide Web Conference (WWW-2008), Beijing, China, April 2008.
2. Wu, F. and Weld, D., “Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia, ACM Sixteenth Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2007), Lisbon, Portugal, November
2007.
3. Etzioni, O., Cafarella, M., Downey, D., Popescu, A-M., Shaked, T., Soderland, S., Weld, D.
and Yates, A., “Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental
Study,” Artificial Intelligence, 165(1) 91 – 34, 2005.
4. Kwok, C., Etzioni, O., and Weld D. “Scaling Question Answering to the Web,” Tenth
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10), Hong Kong, May 2001. Extended
version in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 19(3), July 2001.
5. Kushmerick, N.;Doorenbos, R. and Weld, D., “Wrapper Induction for Information Extraction,”
Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), Nagoya Japan,
August 1997.
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Five Other Publications
1. Gajos, K. and Wobbrock, J. and Weld, D. ``Automatically Generating User Interfaces
Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities,'' Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual
ACM Symposium on User Interface Science and Technology (UIST-07), Newport, RI,
October 2007.
2. Ives, Z., Halevy, A. and Weld, D., ``Adapting to Source Properties in Processing DataIntegration Queries,'' 2004 ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2004),
Paris, June 2004.
3. Lau, T., Wolfman, S., Domingos, P., and Weld, D., “Programming by Demonstration using
Version Space Algebra,” Machine Learning, 53(1–2):111--156, October-November, 2003.
4. Anderson, C. and Domingos, P. and Weld, D. ``Relational Markov Models and their
Application to Adaptive Web Navigation,'' Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-02), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002.
5. Doorenbos, B., Etzioni, O. and Weld, D., “A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the
WWW,” First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENST-97), pages 39 –
48, Marina del Rey, CA, February 1997.
Other Activities
Advisory & Review Boards
Member, NSF CISE Committee on University-Industry-Government Partnerships (2007--)
Member, AAAI Publications Access Committee (2007--)
Member, RIACS Science Council (2005--)
Member, Int’l Joint Semantic Web Services Consortium (SWSC) Architecture Subcommittee
(2003)
Councilor, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (1994--1997)
Member of Advisory Board, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1992--)
Member and Editor, AAAI/NSF Committee on Intelligence in the NII (1994)
Member, AAAI/ARPA Committee on Twenty-First Century Intelligent Systems (1994)
Editorial Activities
Area Editor, Journal of the ACM (2007--)
Editorial Board Member, Artificial Intelligence (1999 —)
Guest Editor, Artificial Intelligence special issue on Intelligent Internet Systems (1998).
Associate Editor, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1993—1996)
Guest Editor, Computational Intelligence special issue on Qualitative Reasoning (May 1992)
Program Committee Chair
AAAI (1996, Program Co-chair; 2006, Co-chair, Senior Member Paper Track)
IUI (2007, Associate Chair; 2009, Program Co-chair)
AGENTS (1998, Area Chair for Software Agents)
International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (1993)
Program Committee Member
AAAI (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996 (chair), 1999 (senior), 2000 (senior), 2005 (senior),
2006 (subtrack cochair), 2007 (senior), 2008.
ICAPS (1995, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (workshop chair))
AIPS Planning Competition Rules Committee (1998, 2000, 2002)
AAAI Workshop on Model-Based Reasoning (1990, 1991)
International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (1987, 1989, 1992, 1993 (chair), 1994)
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computation, Karlsruhe
(1992)
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