# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-waltz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:50:04.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-waltz"
name: "David Waltz"
slug: "david-waltz"
description: "David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems. He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death, was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems."
tagline: "Computer scientist (1943–2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-05-28"
deathDate: "2012-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~waltz/"
sources:
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    title: "David Waltz"
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    title: "ديفيد والتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Waltz"
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    title: "David Waltz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump