Pieter Adriaan Flach (born 8 April 1961,

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) is a Dutch

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and a

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in the

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at the

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. He is author of the acclaimed Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).Peter Flach's Alaln Turing Institute Bio

Education

Flach received an MSc Electrical Engineering from

Universiteit Twente The University of Twente ( ; abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. In addition, the UT was ranked ...

in 1987 and a

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in Computer Science from

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in 1995.

Research

Flach's research interests are in

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and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

References

1961 births Living people Artificial intelligence researchers Dutch computer scientists British computer scientists Machine learning researchers People from Sneek University of Twente alumni Tilburg University alumni Academics of the University of Bristol {{compu-scientist-stub