Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell is a computer science professor at Portland State University with extensive experience in AI research.
She received her PhD from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, developing the Copycat cognitive architecture.
Mitchell has made significant contributions to analogical reasoning, complex systems, genetic algorithms, and cellular automata.
She has authored several influential books, including "An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms" and "Complexity: A Guided Tour," which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award.
Her work has been widely cited, and she has also critiqued other prominent works in the field of artificial intelligence and complex systems.
