Tom M. Mitchell
American computer scientist (born 1951)
Tom Michael Mitchell (born August 9, 1951) is an American computer scientist and the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is a founder and former chair of the Machine Learning Department at CMU. Mitchell is known for his contributions to the advancement of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience and is the author of the textbook Machine Learning.2
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Born Aug 9, 1951.1
About
He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering since 2010. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. In October 2018, Mitchell was appointed as the Interim Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
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Companies
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceChair 2001 to 200315
Early life and education
- Date not recordedStanford University3
- Date not recordedVestal High School3
- Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3
Mitchell was born in Blossburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in Upstate New York, in the town of Vestal. He received his bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University under the direction of Bruce G. Buchanan in 1979.
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Career
Occupation: computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher.8
- 2001 to 2003Chair, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence7
- 1978 to 1986Worked at Rutgers University4
- Date not recordedWorked at Carnegie Mellon University4 5
- Date not recordedFounded Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department6
Mitchell began his teaching career at Rutgers University in 1978. During his tenure at Rutgers, he held the positions of assistant and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. In 1986, he left Rutgers and joined Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh as a professor. In 1999, he became the E. Fredkin Professor in the School of Computer Science. In 2006 Mitchell was appointed as the first chair of the Machine Learning Department within the School of Computer Science. He became university professor in 2009, and served as Interim Dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science during 2018–2019. Mitchell currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Allen Institute for AI and on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataTom M. Mitchell on Wikidata
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- 16Wikimedia CommonsTom M. Mitchell photo by Xuthoria, CC BY-SA 4.0