John Platt (computer scientist)
John Platt | |
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Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Google, Microsoft Research |
Thesis | Constraint methods for neural networks and computer graphics (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan H. Barr Carver Mead John Hopfield |
Website | ai |
John Carlton Platt (born 1963) is an American computer scientist. He is currently a distinguished scientist at Google.[1] Formerly he was a deputy managing director at Microsoft Research Redmond Labs.[2] Platt worked for Microsoft from 1997 to 2015. Before that, he served as director of research at Synaptics.
Life and work
Platt was born in Elgin, Illinois, and matriculated at California State University, Long Beach, at the age of 14. After graduating from CSULB at the age of 18, he enrolled in a computer science PhD program at California Institute of Technology.
While a student at Caltech under astronomer
In August 2005,
Platt shared a 2005 Scientific and Technical Achievement Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Demetri Terzopoulos for their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.[4]
Platt invented sequential minimal optimization, a widely used method for training support vector machines, as well as Platt scaling, a method to turn SVMs (and other classifiers) into probability models.
References
- ^ "John C. Platt". Research at Google. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Microsoft Research Leadership". Retrieved July 6, 2014.
- ^ Dalrymple, Jim (August 16, 2005). "Inside Apple's iPod patent problems". Macworld. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2005.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20060413204557/http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/scitech/winners.html (Backup at archive.org of http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/scitech/winners.html Retrieved 2009-01-08.