Pedro Domingos (born 1965) is a Professor

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of computer science and engineering at the

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. He is a researcher in

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known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.

Education

Domingos received an undergraduate degree and

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degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He moved to the

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, where he received a

degree followed by his

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Research and career

After spending two years as an assistant professor at IST, he joined the University of Washington as an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering in 1999 and became a full professor in 2012. He started a machine learning research group at the

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D. E. Shaw & Co. in 2018, but left in 2019. He co-founded the International Machine Learning Society. As of 2018, he was on the editorial board of ''Machine Learning'' journal.

Publications

* Pedro Domingos, ''

The Master Algorithm ''The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World'' is a book by Pedro Domingos released in 2015. Domingos wrote the book in order to generate interest from people outside the field. Overview The book ...

: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World'', New York, Basic Books, 2015, . * Pedro Domingos, "Our Digital Doubles: AI will serve our species, not control it", ''

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'', vol. 319, no. 3 (September 2018), pp. 88–93. "AIs are like autistic savants and will remain so for the foreseeable future.... AIs lack

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and can easily make errors that a human never would... They are also liable to take our instructions too literally, giving us precisely what we asked for instead of what we actually wanted." (p. 93.) * Pedro Domingos, ''2040: A Silicon Valley Satire'', BookBaby, 2024, .

Awards and honors

* 2014: ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.2014 SIGKDD Innovation Award: Pedro Domingos
/ref> ''for his foundational research in data stream analysis, cost-sensitive classification, adversarial learning, and Markov logic networks, as well as applications in viral marketing and information integration.'' * 2010: Elected an

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(AAAI)

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. ''For significant contributions to the field of machine learning and to the unification of first-order logic and probability.'' * 2003: Sloan Fellowship * 1992–1997:

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Domingos, Pedro University of Washington faculty University of California, Irvine alumni Instituto Superior Técnico alumni Technical University of Lisbon alumni Sloan Research Fellows Artificial intelligence researchers Computer scientists Machine learning researchers D. E. Shaw & Co. people Living people Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 1965 births