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 Department of Computer Science 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 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 data mining and

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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