Ben Taskar, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ben Taskar

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1977

Date of Death: 18-Nov-2013

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to computational linguistics and computer vision.
He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania.
He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Wharton.
He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy.
At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship. He was the first person to define Max-margin Markov networks and a pioneer in statistical relational learning.