Melanie Mitchell is a scientist who has worked at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Michigan; she has also critiqued Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. The Santa Fe Institute [SFI] is a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico founded by Murray Gell-Mann in 1984 to study complex systems and disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory. ... Los Alamos National Laboratory, aerial view from 1995. ... Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959 in London, England) is a scientist known for his work in cellular automata and computer algebra, and is the creator of the computer program Mathematica. ... A New Kind of Science is a controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published in 2002. ...
Her major work has been in the areas of genetic algorithms and cellular automata. A genetic algorithm (GA) is an algorithm used to find approximate solutions to difficult-to-solve problems through application of the principles of evolutionary biology to computer science. ... A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is a discrete model studied in computability theory and mathematics. ...
Currently (2006) a professor of in the Computer Science Department of Portland State University. Portland State University (or PSU) is a university located in downtown Portland, Oregon. ...
Selected publications
Mitchell, M., Holland, J. H., and Forrest, S. (1994). "When will a genetic algorithm outperform hill climbing?". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems6: 51-58.
Mitchell, "Self-awareness and control in decentralized systems," in Working Papers of the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium on Metacognition in Computation, Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2005.
Mitchell, "Analogy-making as a complex adaptive system," in L. Segel and I. Cohen (editors), Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Mitchell, "A complex-systems perspective on the "computation vs. dynamics" debate in cognitive science," In M. Gernsbacher and S. Derry (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society -- Cogsci98, 710-715, 1998.
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