John Henry Holland

John Henry Holland ( born February 2, 1929 in Indiana) is an American computer scientist. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and graduated from the University of Michigan was the first graduate of the subject of computer science with a PhD from. Today he teaches there psychology, electrical engineering and computer science.

He is considered the founder of the genetic algorithm for solving complex optimization problems and evolutionary algorithm. He is also co-founder of the complex adaptive system. Its set of schemas is a key theoretical component of this area.

In 1992 he was MacArthur Fellow.

Publications

  • Holland, JH, Holyoak, KJ, Nisbett, RE, & Thagard, P. ( 1986). Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-58096-9.
  • Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 0-262-58111-6.
  • Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Helix Books, 1996, ISBN 0-201-44230-2.
  • Emergence. From Chaos to Order. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-286211-1.
  • A universal computer Capable of executing on arbitrary number of Subprograms Simultaneously. In: Proc. Eastern Joint Comp. Conf. 1959, pp. 108-112.
  • Iterative circuit computers. In: Proc. Western Joint Comp. Conf. 1960, pp. 259-265.
  • Outline for a logical theory of adaptive systems. In: JACM. Vol 9, No. 3, 1962, pp. 279-314.
  • Hierarchical descriptions, universal spaces, and adaptive systems. In: Arthur W. Burks (ed.): Essays on Cellular Automata. University of Illinois Press, 1970.
  • Using Classifier Systems to Study Adaptive Nonlinear Networks. In: Daniel L. Stein (ed.): Lectures in the Sciences of Complexity. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
  • Concerning the Emergence of Tag- Mediated Lookahead in Classifier Systems. In Stephanie Forrest ( ed.), Emergent computation: self-organizing, collective, and cooperative phenomena in natural and computing networks. MIT Press, 1991.
  • The Royal Road for Genetic Algorithms: Fitness Landscapes and GA Performance. In: Francisco J. Varela, Paul Bourgine (ed.): Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: proceedings of the first European conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press, 1992.
  • Echoing Emergence: objectives, rough definitions, and speculations for ECHO -class models. In: George A. Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer ( eds): Complexity: metaphors, models, and reality. Addison -Wesley, 1994. (Index)
  • Can There Be A Unified Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems? In: Harold J. Morowitz, Jerome L. Singer ( Ed.): The Mind, The Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems. Addison-Wesley, 1995.
  • Board Games. In: John Brockman (ed.): The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years. Phoenix, 2000.
  • What is to Come and How to Predict it. In: John Brockman (ed.): The Next Fifty Years: science in the first half of the twenty -first century. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2002.
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