Biographical Sketch
Tom Mitchell,
Tom M. Mitchell is the Fredkin
Professor of Computer Science within the Center for Automated Learning and
Discovery at
His research lies in the area of machine learning, data mining,
artificial intelligence, and information fusion. Mitchell is Past President
of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), author of the
textbook "Machine Learning," and a member of the National Research
Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He received the
2002 Debye Prize for his research in computer
science. Mitchell is the founding director of CMU's Center for Automated
Learning and Discovery, an interdisciplinary research center specializing in
statistical machine learning and data mining, and the first institution to
offer a
Ph.D. program specifically in this area. Mitchell's recent research has focused
on machine learning approaches to analyzing human brain function based on fMRI data, and on machine learning for intelligent personal
assistants.