Daniel Sabey "Dan" Weld is the Thomas J. Cable/ WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

, where he does research in automated planning and scheduling,

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s, and

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. He is a venture partner at

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, a Seattle-based venture capital firm. Weld was born in 1960 in Boston. He attended high school at Phillips Academy, earned bachelor's degrees in

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and Molecular Biophysics and

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(1982) from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, and a master's degree (1984) and PhD (1988) in

from

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

. He is a

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and

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artif ...

. Weld co-founded Netbot Incorporated (1996), which was acquired by

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; AdRelevance (1998), which was acquired by

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and then by

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; and Nimble Technology (1999), which was acquired by

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References

External links

Daniel Weld's Home Page

UW page describing "The Intelligence in Wikipedia Project"
Living people University of Washington faculty MIT School of Engineering alumni American computer scientists Yale University alumni Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Phillips Academy alumni 1960 births {{compu-scientist-stub