Timothy Jurka

Timothy Jurka is a Polish-American computer scientist and political scientist.

Timothy Jurka
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
Known forContributions to document classification software
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Political Science

Background

Jurka is best known for developing the artificial intelligence that ranks the LinkedIn news feed.[1][2] Previously, Jurka developed machine learning algorithms for news recommendations in the Pulse news reading application, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2013.[3][4]

As a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, Jurka collaborated on numerous projects in political science spanning media framing,[5][6] civic engagement,[7] and tobacco and immunization policy.[8] Additionally, he wrote text classification software, including RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language,[9][10][11][12] both of which have since been deprecated.[13][14]

He is the son of computational biologist Jerzy Jurka.[15]

gollark: rustc is quite slow. ghc, however, is fairly fast. The implications are obvious.
gollark: rustc is to be rewritten in Haskell for greater performance.
gollark: Wondrous.
gollark: Ugh, icecast is being highly apioformic wrt. metadata.
gollark: No, the correct format is HH-dd-ss.

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