Thomas G. Dietterich
| Thomas G. Dietterich | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 South Weymouth, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Executive Editor of Machine Learning (journal) (1992–98) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
Naperville Central High School Oberlin College University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Stanford University |
| Thesis title | “Constraint-Propagation Techniques for Theory-Driven Data Interpretation” |
| Thesis year | 1984 |
| Doctoral advisor | Bruce G. Buchanan |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Oregon State University |
Thomas G. Dietterich is Emeritus Professor of computer science at Oregon State University. He is one of the founders of the field of machine learning. He served as Executive Editor of Machine Learning (journal) (1992–98) and helped co-found the Journal of Machine Learning Research. In response to the media's attention on the dangers of artificial intelligence, Dietterich has been quoted for an academic perspective to a broad range of media outlets including National Public Radio, Business Insider, Microsoft Research, CNET, and The Wall Street Journal.
Among his research contributions were the invention of error-correcting output coding to multi-class classification, the formalization of the multiple-instance problem, the MAXQ framework for hierarchical reinforcement learning, and the development of methods for integrating non-parametric regression trees into probabilistic graphical models.
Thomas Dietterich was born in South Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1954. His family later moved to New Jersey and then again to Illinois, where Tom graduated from Naperville Central High School. Dietterich then entered Oberlin College and began his undergraduate studies. In 1977, Dietterich graduated from Oberlin with a degree in mathematics, focusing on probability and statistics.
Dietterich spent the following two years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After those two years, he began his doctoral studies in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Dietterich received his Ph.D. in 1984 and moved to Corvallis, Oregon, where he was hired as an assistant professor in computer science. In 2016, Dietterich retired from his position at Oregon State University.
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