Partha Niyogi (July 31, 1967 – October 1, 2010) was the Louis Block Professor in
Computer Science
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and
Statistics
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at the
University of Chicago
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.
He is known for his work in
artificial intelligence
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, especially in the field of
manifold learning
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and
evolutionary linguistics
Evolutionary linguistics or Darwinian linguistics is a sociobiological approach to the study of language. Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as a subfield of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. The approach is also closely linked ...
. He wrote more than 90 academic publications and two books.
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Notable work
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Laplacian eigenmaps
References
External links
Personal website Technical Reports
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1967 births
2010 deaths
Computer scientists
University of Chicago faculty