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Kenneth De Jong

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b De John, Kenneth Alan (1975). An Analysis of the Behavior of a Class of Genetic Adaptive Systems. University of Michigan.
  2. ^ a b "Biosketch for Kenneth De Jong". George Mason University Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ a b "IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions". IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Retrieved 2023-10-06.[dead link]
  5. ^ Kenneth De Jong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Reviews of Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach:
  7. ^ a b "Kenneth A. De Jong". IEEE Xplore. IEEE. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Distinguished ACM Speaker: Kenneth De Jong". Distinguished Speakers Program. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-09-07.
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