Thomas G. Dietterich
Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501

Biography
Thomas G. Dietterich (AB Oberlin College 1977; M.S. University of Illinois 1979; Ph.D. Stanford University 1984) joined the OSU faculty in January 1985. In 1987, he was named a Presidential Young Investigator for the NSF. In 1990, he published, with Dr. Jude Shavlik, the book entitled Readings in Machine Learning, and he also served as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90). From 1992-1998 he held the position of Executive Editor of the journal, Machine Learning. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence named him a Fellow in 1994, and the Association for Computing Machinery did the same in 2003. In 2000, he co-founded a new, free electronic journal: The Journal of Machine Learning Research. He served as Technical Program Chair of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in 2000 and General Chair in 2001. He is currently President of the International Machine Learning Society and he also serves on the Board of Trustees of the NIPS Foundation.