John Platt (computer scientist)
John Platt | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) |
| 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 Fellow at Google, where he leads the Applied Science branch of Google Research. Formerly he was a deputy managing director at Microsoft Research Redmond Labs. Platt worked for Microsoft from 1997 to 2015. Before that, he served as director of research at Synaptics.