David L. Waltz
David L. Waltz’s work connects computer vision with structured reasoning and learning from examples. His research includes work on line drawings and shared memory-based reasoning methods. Waltz did his 1972 MIT thesis work on deriving three-dimensional descriptions from drawings with shadows. The methods extend work by Huffman and Clowes and use constraints from scene structure. Waltz’s career included directing advanced information systems at Thinking Machines from 1984 to 1993 and holding a Brandeis computer science professorship during that period.
- Works
- 110
- Citations
- 6,064
- h-index
- 28
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1972
Interpreting line drawings
Waltz did his 1972 MIT thesis work on deriving three-dimensional descriptions from drawings with shadows. The methods extend work by Huffman and Clowes and use constraints from scene structure.
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1984–1993
Parallel information systems
Waltz’s career included directing advanced information systems at Thinking Machines from 1984 to 1993 and holding a Brandeis computer science professorship during that period.
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1990
Research recognition
AAAI elected David L. Waltz as a Fellow in 1990.
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1997–1999
An AI research community
Waltz served as president of AAAI from 1997 to 1999.
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2003
A learning research center
Waltz became director of its Center for Computational Learning Systems in 2003. He also worked with Craig Stanfill on memory-based reasoning.
Sources and credits
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