Peter Flach

{{Short description|Dutch computer scientist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}

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| workplaces = University of Bristol

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Pieter Adriaan Flach (born 8 April 1961, Sneek) is a Dutch computer scientist and a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.{{GoogleScholar|id=o9ggd4sAAAAJ}} He is author of the acclaimed Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).[https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/peter-flach Peter Flach's Alaln Turing Institute Bio]/