Melanie Mitchell
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Melanie Mitchell is a scientist who has worked at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, for which she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture. She has also critiqued Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. She is the author of "An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms" (ISBN 0-262-63185-7), a widely known introductory book published by MIT Press in 1996.
Her major work has been in the areas of genetic algorithms and cellular automata.
Currently (2006) a professor of in the Computer Science Department of Portland State University.
[edit] Selected publications
Mitchell, M., Holland, J. H., and Forrest, S. (1994). "When will a genetic algorithm outperform hill climbing?". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6: 51-58.
