Danny Silver is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Jodrey School of Computer Science at Acadia University. He was educated at Acadia University (B.Sc), St.Mary's University (CIM) and The University of Western Ontario (M.Sc., Ph.D.). He teaches courses in machine learning, data mining, e-commerce and software engineering. His research focuses on advanced methods of machine learning and their application in data mining, intelligent agents, user modeling, and adaptive systems.  He has published over 50 scientific papers, and has co-chaired or been part of the program committee for a number of workshops, seminars and conferences.  Since 2004, he has maintained a Machine Life-Long Learning (ML³) web-page for the community of researchers interested in learning to learn, lifelong learning and meta-learning.  Danny was the President of the Canadian Artificiual Intellgence Association (CAIAC, previously CSCSI) and currently holds the Past-President position.   In 2005, he founded the Acadia University Robot Programming Competitions and has been the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Partner for Nova Scotia since 2006. 

Prior to his appointment at Acadia Danny was an Associate to the Killam Chair in Business Informatics, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University.  In this position he was responsible for aspects of research, promotion, education and application of knowledge discovery and data mining methods and technologies to problems in business and industry.   Before undertaking a career in academia he gained experience in government and industry as a systems analysis, technical architect and project manager. Since January, 1993, he has operated a consulting business, CogNova Technologies, that offers services in the areas of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining.