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19861980s
Ross Quinlan
Creator of ID3 and C4.5, the decision-tree algorithms that made machine learning legible to the people using it.
Organizations
University of SydneyRAND CorporationRulequest Research
Major Achievements
- •Introduced ID3 (1986), inducing decision trees by splitting on the attribute with the highest information gain.
- •Followed it with C4.5, for years among the most widely used algorithms in data mining.
- •Extended the family to regression and rule induction with C5.0 and Cubist.
- •Made interpretability a practical property of learned models rather than an afterthought.
Key Papers
- Induction of Decision Trees
J. Ross Quinlan · Machine Learning · 1986