Melanie Mitchell
Computer scientist and author
Melanie Mitchell is an American computer scientist whose research spans complex systems, analogy and artificial intelligence. She wrote Artificial Intelligence.
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American Born in Los Angeles, United States
About Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell is an American computer scientist. Her career includes positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute, and her research has covered cellular automata, genetic algorithms, complex systems and analogical reasoning. She completed her PhD at the University of Michigan in 1990, supervised by Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, and created the Copycat cognitive architecture as part of it. Her books include An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, Complexity: A Guided Tour and Artificial Intelligence. In 2010, Complexity: A Guided Tour received the Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award. She also began Complexity Explorer, a Santa Fe Institute project offering free courses online about complex systems.