Remembering Dave Waltz （1943-2012）.pdfVIP

I n M e M o r I a M Remembering Dave Waltz (1943–2012) Fei-Yue Wang, State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems In a Letter from the Editor in the last issue, I expressed our great sadness at the passing of David L. Waltz, a member of our advisory board and a great friend and longtime supporter to many of us here at IEEE Intelli- gent Systems . It is difficult to summarize the achieve- serving as the director of advanced infor- ments of his long career, of which there mation systems, Dave created the original were so many; he was a brilliant scientist, a field of memory-based reasoning. It was pioneer in computer sciences and artificial a creation that revolutionized AI and laid intelligence, and an inspiration to many the technical foundation for the success of others. He began at MIT, completing all of Google today. his degrees there in electronic engineering. His most recent research interests at Co- Already, his work had an impact: Dave’s lumbia University dealt with the application PhD dissertation, Generating Semantic of machine learning to electric power grids, Descriptions from Drawings of Scenes with an emerging field that will revol