Waterman, D. A. (Donald Arthur), 1936-

Computer scientist; first Ph.D. from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence. His doctoral research contributed to the foundation work for what would later come to be labeled "knowledge based systems" (and still later "expert systems"). He helped define the problem areas of production rule architectures, machine learning, and learning apprentice systems. In 1975 he joined the Information Sciences Department at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

From the description of D. A. Waterman papers, 1961-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122585836