John C. Platt

Summary

John C. Platt is a human^[1]. His place of birth was Elgin^[2]. He was born on +1963-01-01T00:00:00Z^[3]. He worked as a computer scientist^[4] and astronomer^[5]. He ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month, #7,294 of 1,000,298).^[6]

Key Facts

• John C. Platt's place of birth was Elgin^[2].
• John C. Platt was born on +1963-01-01T00:00:00Z^[3].
• John C. Platt held citizenship in United States^[7].
• John C. Platt worked as a computer scientist^[4].
• John C. Platt's professions included astronomer^[5].
• John C. Platt was employed by Microsoft^[8].
• John C. Platt's education included a stint at California State University, Long Beach^[9].
• John C. Platt's doctoral advisor was Carver Mead^[10].
• John C. Platt's doctoral advisor was John Hopfield^[11].
• John C. Platt's doctoral advisor was Alan Howard Barr^[12].
• John C. Platt's image is recorded as SD 2025 - John Platt 03 (cropped).jpg^[13].
• John C. Platt is recorded as male^[14].
• John C. Platt's instance of is recorded as human^[15].
• John C. Platt's ISNI is recorded as 0000000365639975^[16].
• John C. Platt's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 232750740^[17].
• John C. Platt's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2016072151^[18].
• John C. Platt's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16583767f^[19].
• John C. Platt's Mathematics Genealogy Project ID is recorded as 250279^[20].
• John C. Platt's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07gbk6^[21].
• John C. Platt's family name is recorded as Platt^[22].
• John C. Platt's given name is recorded as John^[23].
• John C. Platt's Scopus author ID is recorded as 7202024805^[24].
• John C. Platt's participant in is recorded as Thirty-first Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems^[25].
• John C. Platt's Google Scholar author ID is recorded as qJzUyM0AAAAJ^[26].
• John C. Platt's Erdős number is recorded as {'amount': '+3'}^[27].

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Origins and Family

Born in Elgin^[2], John C. Platt… he was born on +1963-01-01T00:00:00Z^[3].

Education

John C. Platt's education included a stint at California State University, Long Beach^[9]. Doctoral advisors include Carver Mead^[10], a computer scientist^[28], b. 1934^[29], of United States^[30], awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation^[31], specialised in microelectronics^[32]; John Hopfield^[11], a physicist^[33], b. 1933^[34], of United States^[35], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship^[36], specialised in biology^[37]; and Alan Howard Barr^[12], a computer scientist^[38], awarded the ACM Fellow^[39].

Career and Affiliations

Recorded occupations include computer scientist^[4] and astronomer^[5]. Among John C. Platt's employers was Microsoft^[8].

Why It Matters

John C. Platt ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month, #7,294 of 1,000,298).^[6] He has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[40] He is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[41]

He is credited with the discovery of sequential minimal optimization^[42], an optimization algorithm^[43].

FAQs

Where was John C. Platt born?

John C. Platt was born in Elgin^[2].

What did John C. Platt do for work?

John C. Platt worked as computer scientist^[4] and astronomer^[5].

Where did John C. Platt go to school?

John C. Platt was educated at California State University, Long Beach^[9].

What did John C. Platt discover?

John C. Platt is credited as discoverer of sequential minimal optimization^[42].