John H. Wolfe

John H. Wolfe is the inventor of model-based clustering for continuous data. is a first, but ultimately failed attempt to do this. After graduating from Berkeley, Wolfe took a job with the US Navy in San Diego first as a computer programmer and then as an operations research analyst.

He continued his research on clustering and in 1965 he published the paper that invented model-based clustering.

After 1970, Wolfe worked on other topics, but model-based clustering grew rapidly. Articles on model-based clustering have garnered over 20,000 citations in scientific publications,