Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to

computational linguistics Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...

and computer vision. He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and

Wharton Wharton may refer to: Academic institutions * Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania * Wharton County Junior College * Paul R. Wharton High School * Wharton Center for Performing Arts, at Michigan State University Places * Wharton, Ch ...

. He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy. At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship. He was the first person to define Max-margin Markov networks and a pioneer in

statistical relational learning Statistical relational learning (SRL) is a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence and machine learning that is concerned with domain models that exhibit both uncertainty (which can be dealt with using statistical methods) and complex, relational ...

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* ''UW CSE News'', Ben Taskar memorial, https://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/11/18/ben-taskar-1977-2013/ * "Geek Wire", UW computer science professor Ben Taskar passes away at 36 news, http://www.geekwire.com/2013/uw-computer-science-professor-ben-taskar-dies-37/ 2013 deaths American computer scientists Machine learning researchers Artificial intelligence researchers Logic programming researchers University of California, Berkeley faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Washington faculty Stanford University alumni 1977 births {{US-compu-bio-stub