ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ian H. Witten is professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in mathematics from Cambridge University in England, an MSc in computer science from the University of Calgary in Canada, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Essex University in England. Witten is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography. He has written several ...

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