Melanie Mitchell
Biography
Melanie Mitchell received a B.A. in Mathematics from Brown University
in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Michigan in 1990. Her dissertation work with Douglas Hofstadter was
on cognitive modeling of high-level perception and analogy-making.
From 1990 to 1992 she was a Junior Fellow in the University of
Michigan Society of Fellows, with a joint appointment as an Assistant
Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department at the University of Michigan. Since 1992 she has been on
the research faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, and directs the Institute's Adaptive Computation program. She
is also on the research faculty of the Computer Science Department of
the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Her research is on intelligent systems, machine learning, and
cognitive science (particularly theory and applications of
evolutionary computation, computer models of adaptive systems, and
computer models of analogy-making); parallel, distributed, and
decentralized computation in spatially extended systems; and, more
generally, understanding how natural systems perform computation, and
how to use ideas from natural systems to develop new kinds of
computational systems.
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