About John Koza
Posted by Stephen Waits Thu, 04 May 2006 03:51:59 GMT
Popsci.com is running a piece about John Koza, inventor of genetic programming.
Genetic programming is what got me interested in the entire realm of evolutionary algorithms. In 1997, my coworker and friend Francois loaned me a copy of this weird book, “Genetic Programming” (Koza). I still remember the excitement of reading through the Santa Fe Ant problem and GP solution! Thanks to Francois - that opened doors to a massive world for me; that of stochastic search and optimization. I love this stuff.
Since then I’ve played with all sorts of stuff, and applied it to real work many times. It’s really great, and I encourage any programmer nerd freak to check it out.