John 'Dutchy' Holland (2 February 1929) is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research He is a pioneer in complex system and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms. A genetic algorithm (GA is a Search technique used in Computing to find exact or Approximate solutions to optimization and Search
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Biography
Holland was born in Fort Wayne in Indiana in 1929. Fort Wayne in modern Fort Wayne Indiana was established by Captain Jean François Hamtramck under orders from General "Mad" He studied Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a B. S. in 1950, and studied Mathematics at the University of Michigan and received an M. A. in 1954. [1] In 1959 he was the recipient of the first computer science Ph. D. from the University of Michigan. He is now Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research
He is also a member of The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan, and a member of the Board of Trustees and Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. The Santa Fe Institute (SFI is a non-profit research institute located in Santa Fe New Mexico, United States, dedicated to the study of Complex systems
John H Holland is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a fellow of the World Economic Forum. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D The World Economic Forum (WEF is a Geneva -based Non-profit foundation best known for its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland
Work
Holland frequently lectures around the world on his own research, and on current research and open questions in CAS studies. In 1975 he wrote the ground-breaking book on genetic algorithms, "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems". He also developed Holland's schema theorem. Holland's schema theorem is widely taken to be the foundation for explanations of the power of Genetic algorithms.
Publications
Holland is the author of a number of books about complex adaptive systems, including:
- 1975, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems
- 1995, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
- 1998, Emergence: From Chaos to Order
Articles, a selection:
- 1959, "A universal computer capable of executing an arbitrary number of subprograms simultaneously", in: Proc. Complex adaptive systems are special cases of Complex systems They are complex in that they are diverse and made up of multiple interconnected elements and adaptive Eastern Joint Comp. Conf. pp. 108-112.
- 1960, "Iterative circuit computers", in: Proc. Western Joint Comp. Conf. pp. 259-265.
- 1962, "Outline for a logical theory of adaptive systems", in: JACM, Vol 9, nr. 3, pp. 279-314.
- 1970, "Hierarchical descriptions, universal spaces, and adaptive systems", in: Arthur W. Burks, editor. Essays on Cellular Automata. University of Illinois Press. 1970
- 1989, "Using Classifier Systems to Study Adaptive Nonlinear Networks", in: Daniel L. Stein, editor. Lectures in the Sciences of Complexity. Addison Wesley. 1989
- 1990, "Concerning the Emergence of Tag-Mediated Lookahead in Classifier Systems", in: Stephanie Forrest, editor. Emergent Computation: self-organizing, collective, and cooperative phenomena in natural and computing networks. MIT Press. 1991
- 1992, "The Royal Road for Genetic Algorithms: Fitness Landscapes and GA Performance", in: Francisco J. Varela, Paul Bourgine, editors. Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: proceedings of the first European conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press. 1992
- 1994, "Echoing Emergence: objectives, rough definitions, and speculations for ECHO-class models", in: George A. Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer, editors. Complexity: metaphors, models, and reality, Addison-Wesley. 1994
- 1995, "Can There Be A Unified Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems?", in: Harold J. Morowitz, Jerome L. Singer, editors. The Mind, The Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems. Addison-Wesley. 1995
- 2000, "Board Games", in: John Brockman, editor. The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years. Phoenix. 2000.
- 2002, "What is to Come and How to Predict It. ", in: John Brockman, editor. The Next Fifty Years: science in the first half of the twenty-first century. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 2002
References
External links
- Biography
- Bibliography of John Henry Holland by Susan Stepney.
- Echo project of John Holland at the Santa Fe Institute.
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