Notes and Testimonials

I enjoy maintaining this list and want to ensure that my bosses realize that it's a worthwhile activity so that they'll allow me to devote a small amount of time for its maintenance. Therefore, I've posted some unsolicited testimonials (below).

Most of my communications regarding this list are (1) requests for new entries and (2) corrected/updated URLs. I'm delighted to receive these, and make it a priority to fulfill them immediately on receipt. Feel free to mirror this list, or use it in a research project. Suggestions welcome.

David W. Aha (August 1997)

Some Brief Testimonials

• Janusz Wnek (George Mason University), 20 Dec 1995: Dear David, you are doing an excellent job. Please add my web address to your list.
• Wlodek Duch (Nicholas Copernicus University), 24 Oct 1996: I use your page fairly often, thank you for maintaining it!
• Leonid Kuvayev (University of Massachusetts), 9 Dec 1996; I am a doctoral student in the Adaptive Networks Lab of the University of Massachusetts. Your page of ML and CBR people helps me tremendously in the search for literature. Could you, please, add my link there as well...
• Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University), 16 Feb 1997: ...your listing of home pages is without question the single resource that I use the most on the internet. It is incredibly useful! Thank-you so much for providing it.
• Artur Laksberg (Tartu University), 13 Mar 1997: I just have a look to your "Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning Home Pages" site and I was totally impressed! I believe I'll spend a lot of time exploring it!
• Zdravko Markov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), 3 Jun 1997: Recently I have been enjoying the useful ML information you provided through the WEB. So, here is my contribution. I would be very grateful to you if include my home page in the list of home pages of the ML-CBR folks.
• Geoff Webb (Deakin University), 28 Jul 1997: If you collect testemonials you can add the following: I use your ML&CBR Home Pages page frequently. It is a tremendous service to the community. Thanks!
• Mehmet Goker (Daimler Benz Research & Technology), 8 Aug 1997: Could you please update the information in the ML-CBR peoples list? ...Thanks a lot. By the way - I used those pages several times to locate people - they really are a big help.
• Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University), 8 Sept 1997: Reading the various praising comments of people on the list, might I add that, besides that it is by far my most-used entry for searches in ML space, it is great fun to click on the list blindly, arrive at a random person's page and learn about great new ideas and applications you never thought of...
• Kawe Shah-Hamzei (Loughborough University), 27 Feb 1998: I cannot describe the wealth of material and effort you have put into engineering such a valuable site. I only need to say, "An Outstanding Collection!"
• Andrew Moore (Carnegie Mellon University), 23 April 1998: Let me thank you once again for running the ML Researchers web page and the ML resources web page. It is pretty much the most useful web resource I know about at the moment for my research-related use of the web. I use it several times a week, and others in my group use it frequently too.
• Kamal Nigam (Carnegie Mellon University), 5 May 1998: Thanks for maintaining this great resource for the community. It has been invaluable for myself and many others
• Luis Talavera (Technical University of Catalonia), 6 June 1998: Also, I have to tell you that your ML Resources and ML&CBR folks pages are my primary source of ML information on the Web. Undoubtedly, the valuable information provided will help to improve the quality of my dissertation. Thanks.
• Stephen Kwek (Washington State U.), 28 August 1998: I find the list of researchers you maintain on the web to be very useful. Could you add me to the list too. I am a new faculty...Thanks
• Costas Tsatsoulis (U. Kansas), 1 September 1998: Thanks for maintaining such a great resource.
• Philip Reiser (U. Auckland), 17 September 1998: Thanks for going to the trouble of maintaining this list. It is proving very useful.
• Thomas Zeugmann (Kyushu U.), 26 October 1998: I just wanted to thank you for maintaining the list of ML/CBR Home Pages which I use quite often. It is a very helpful resource. I would greatly appreciate if you could add my home page...
• Morten Grimnes (Computas Inc.), 12 November 1998: I'm a former PhD student under prof. Aamodt...I find your list of researchers very useful (I use them as a kind of white pages)...
• Andres Perez-Uribe (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 16 March 1999: Thank you, for maintaining the ML People page and the ML resources page.....helping more and more people to know about such wonderful techniques.
• Ralf Klinkenberg (University of Dortmund), 31 March 1999: Thanks for offering such a good service to the research community with your WWW page 'Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning Home Pages' !
• Peter Turney (Canadian National Research Council), 3 June 1999: Dear David: I've been using your "Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning Home Pages" for years, and a message of thanks is long overdue. Thanks! This is a great resource. When I'm looking for a particular journal article, I usually go first to your web pages, to find the author's home page. Most of the time, the author's home page is in your list, and it often leads me to several more papers on the given topic. Your web pages are a very valuable service to the ML and CBR communities. I hope you will be able to provide this service for a long time to come.
• Mehmet R. Tolun (Eastern Mediterranean University), 15 November 1999: Dear David Aha, Your homepage has proved to be very useful to me and my students over the years. Many thanks for this.
• Tina Eliassi-Rad (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 15 November 1999: Hi, I am a dissertator in Jude Shavlik's Machine Learning Research Group...I have been using your list of ML & CBR homepages for over 2 years now and it has been a wonderful resource for me. Could you please add my homepage to the list?
• David Patterson (University of Ulster), 31 May 2001: I am just sending you this to thank you for maintaining the links to researchers in the fields of CBR & ML from your web site. This was an invaluable resource to me when I was doing my PhD thesis. It saved me so much time!
• Ricardo Vilalta (University of Houston), 7 November 2002: Thanks for taking care of such a useful page for all of us doing machine learning.