ACM Comm 2016 08 John H Holland (Notes)

"Computational Biology in the 21st Century" CACM August 2016

Adaptive Computation: The Multidisciplinary Legacy of John H. Holland by Stephanie Forrest and Melanie Mitchell, p. 58-63.

Adaptive Computation: The Multidisciplinary Legacy of John H. Holland[1]

The article is a tribute to Professor John Holland who pioneered many ideas in adaptive computation.

People

1. John von Neumann
2. Alan Turing
3. Norbert Wiener
4. Daniel Dennett, philosopher, "intuition pumps".
5. W. Ross Ashby
6. Roland Fisher
7. Bernard Ziegler
8. Arthur Samuel
9. Arthur Eddington, Sir

Ideas

1. Cybernetics Era[2]
2. Exploitation vs. Exploration - "Two-Armed Bandit Problem" - Exploit the available resources or explore for more?
3. Krebs Cycle[3]
4. Modeling in Which Kinds? What kinds of models produce what kinds of information or insights? So which is chosen?
5. Rank-frequency distribution of species diversity, known as the Preston Curve in ecology.
6. Echo, and exploratory model by Holland.
7. Chaotic Attractors or power laws

References

1. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by Ronald Fisher
2. An Introduction to Cybernetics, by W. Ross Ashby
3. Hidden Order, by John H. Holland
4. Emergence, by John H. Holland
5. Signals and Boundaries, by John H. Holland
6. Complexity: A Very Short Introduction, by John H. Holland

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