John Henry Holland
American scientist and professor
John Henry Holland was an American scientist and professor of psychology and electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms. Wikipedia
Born: February 2, 1929, Fort Wayne, IN
Died: August 9, 2015 (age 86 years), Ann Arbor, MI
Notable students: David E. Goldberg, Melanie Mitchell, John Koza, and more
Academic advisor: Arthur Burks
Awards: MacArthur Fellow (1992); Harold Pender Award (1999); Fellow of the World Economic Forum
Known for: Research on genetic algorithms
Books
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
1975
Emergence: From Chaos to Order
1998
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
1995
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction
2014
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems
2012
Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
1986