Daniel S. Weld is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He received bachelor's degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982. He landed a Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1988, received a Presidential Young Investigator's award in 1989 and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator's award in 1990. Weld is on the advisory board for the Journal of AI Research, was guest editor for Computational Intelligence, edited the AAAI report on the Role of Intelligent Systems in the National Information Infrastructure, and is co-Program Chair for AAAI-96. Weld has published two books and scads of technical papers.


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Research Interests: Weld's current research interests are in Artificial intelligence, specifically software agents and planning. As one example, Weld's group supports the UCPOP planner, which is being used at almost one hundred sites worldwide. Many of Weld's papers are available electronically; here are his current favorites: Or select from a more exhaustive list.


Recreation: When absent from his office, Weld can be found at Cafe Allegro or in the stormy mountains, climbing. In the past, he enjoyed traveling the world, but now he's more likely to be found playing with his twin boys Adam and Galen.

You are invited to visit his gallery of Pacific Northwest and Desert wilderness photographs. See also his illustrated story about Morocco.


weld@cs.washington.edu