Melanie Mitchell received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, for which she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture.
10 Facts About Melanie Mitchell
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Melanie Mitchell is the author of "Analogy-Making as Perception", essentially a book about Copycat.
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Melanie Mitchell has critiqued Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science and showed that genetic algorithms could find better solutions to the majority problem for one-dimensional cellular automata.
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Melanie Mitchell is the author of An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, a widely known introductory book published by MIT Press in 1996.
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Melanie Mitchell is author of Complexity: A Guided Tour, which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.
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Melanie Mitchell was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
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Melanie Mitchell attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she studied physics, astronomy and mathematics.
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Melanie Mitchell developed the Complexity Explorer platform for the Santa Fe Institute, which offers online courses.
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In 2018, Barbara Grosz, Dawn Song and Melanie Mitchell organised the workshop "On Crashing the Barrier of Meaning in AI".
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In 2020, Mitchell received the Herbert A Simon Award.