Kenneth De Jong Explained

Kenneth Alan De Jong (born 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at George Mason University.^[1] He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary computation.^[2]

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.^[3] He became a faculty member at George Mason University in 1984.^[1]

He is the author of the textbook Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach (MIT Press, 2006),^[4] and was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation,^[5] which published its first volume in 1993.^[6]

Recognition

De Jong was the 2005 recipient of the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.^[7] He is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award of the Evolutionary Programming Society.^[5] He was a distinguished speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.^[8]

References

1. Web site: Biosketch for Kenneth De Jong. George Mason University Department of Computer Science. 2023-10-06.
2. Book: Mitchell, Melanie. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. Melanie Mitchell. MIT Press. 1998. 9780262631853. 175. De Jong (1975) performed an early systematic study of how varying parameters affected the GA's on-line and off-line search performance.
3. Book: De John, Kenneth Alan. An Analysis of the Behavior of a Class of Genetic Adaptive Systems. 1975. University of Michigan.
4. Reviews of Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach:
   • Jansen. Thomas. 2007. Mathematical Reviews. none. 2234532.
   • Mezura-Montes. Efrén. October 2007. 10.1162/artl.2007.13.4.423. 4. Artificial Life. 423–426. none. 13. 42890382 .
   • Reeves. Colin R.. July 2007. 10.1007/s10710-007-9035-9. 3. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 293–295. none. 8. 7547311 .
   • Wolf. Jason B.. March 2007. 10.1086/513342. 1. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 10.1086/513342. 46. none. 82.
5. Web site: Kenneth A. De Jong. IEEE Xplore. IEEE. 2023-10-06.
6. De Jong . Kenneth . Hart . Emma . Emma Hart (computer scientist) . 10.1162/evco_e_00324 . 2 . Evolutionary Computation . 73–79 . Editorial: Reflecting on Thirty Years of ECJ . 31 . 2023.
7. Web site: IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 2023-10-06.
8. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20140907113136/http://www.dsp.acm.org/view_lecturer.cfm?lecturer_id=3643. Distinguished ACM Speaker: Kenneth De Jong. 2014-09-07. dead. Distinguished Speakers Program. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014.

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