Kenneth Alan De Jong (born 1944)[1] is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at George Mason University.[2] He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary computation.[3][4]
Education and career edit
De Jong was a student of John Henry Holland at the University of Michigan, where he completed a Ph.D. in 1975 with a dissertation on genetic algorithms.[1][5] He became a faculty member at George Mason University in 1984.[2]
He is the author of the textbook Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach (MIT Press, 2006),[6] and was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation,[7] which published its first volume in 1993.[8]
Recognition edit
De Jong was the 2005 recipient of the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.[4] He is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award of the Evolutionary Programming Society.[7] He was a distinguished speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.[9]
References edit
- ^ a b De John, Kenneth Alan (1975). An Analysis of the Behavior of a Class of Genetic Adaptive Systems. University of Michigan.
- ^ a b "Biosketch for Kenneth De Jong". George Mason University Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Mitchell, Melanie (1998). An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. MIT Press. p. 175. ISBN 9780262631853.
De Jong (1975) performed an early systematic study of how varying parameters affected the GA's on-line and off-line search performance
- ^ a b "IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions". IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Kenneth De Jong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach:
- Jansen, Thomas (2007). Mathematical Reviews. MR 2234532.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mezura-Montes, Efrén (October 2007). Artificial Life. 13 (4): 423–426. doi:10.1162/artl.2007.13.4.423. S2CID 42890382.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Reeves, Colin R. (July 2007). Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 8 (3): 293–295. doi:10.1007/s10710-007-9035-9. S2CID 7547311.
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- Jansen, Thomas (2007). Mathematical Reviews. MR 2234532.
- ^ a b "Kenneth A. De Jong". IEEE Xplore. IEEE. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ De Jong, Kenneth; Hart, Emma (2023). "Editorial: Reflecting on Thirty Years of ECJ". Evolutionary Computation. 31 (2): 73–79. doi:10.1162/evco_e_00324.
- ^ "Distinguished ACM Speaker: Kenneth De Jong". Distinguished Speakers Program. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-09-07.