Biography:Kenneth A 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

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

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 De John, Kenneth Alan (1975). An Analysis of the Behavior of a Class of Genetic Adaptive Systems. University of Michigan. https://www.proquest.com/openview/5bbdd6eb198f9e7d02353e994b3591c2/1. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Biosketch for Kenneth De Jong". George Mason University Department of Computer Science. https://cs.gmu.edu/~kdejong/dejong_bio.html. 
  3. Mitchell, Melanie (1998). An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. MIT Press. p. 175. ISBN 9780262631853. https://books.google.com/books?id=0eznlz0TF-IC&pg=PA175. "De Jong (1975) performed an early systematic study of how varying parameters affected the GA's on-line and off-line search performance" 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions". IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. https://cis.ieee.org/component/content/article/17-e-newsletter-news-a-announcements/302-call-for-participants-biotech-project-.html. 
  5. Kenneth A De Jong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Reviews of Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach:
    • Jansen, Thomas (2007). "none". Mathematical Reviews. 
    • Mezura-Montes, Efrén (October 2007). "none". Artificial Life 13 (4): 423–426. doi:10.1162/artl.2007.13.4.423. 
    • Reeves, Colin R. (July 2007). "none". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 8 (3): 293–295. doi:10.1007/s10710-007-9035-9. 
    • Wolf, Jason B. (March 2007). "none". The Quarterly Review of Biology 82 (1): 46. doi:10.1086/513342. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Kenneth A. De Jong". IEEE Xplore. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37276171300. 
  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. http://www.dsp.acm.org/view_lecturer.cfm?lecturer_id=3643. 

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