David E. Goldberg

David Edward Goldberg
Born	1953 (1953)
Nationality	American
Fields	Genetic algorithms
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	E. Benjamin Wylie, John Henry Holland
Known for	Work in the field of genetic algorithms

David Edward Goldberg (born 1953) is an American computer scientist, and professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms. He is the director of Illinois genetic algorithms laboratory^[1] (IlliGAL) and also the chief scientist of Nextumi Inc.^[2] He is also the author of "Genetic Algorithms for Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning", which is one of the most cited books in computer science.^[3]

David E. Goldberg received a PhD degree in civil engineering in 1983 from University of Michigan and his advisors were E. Benjamin Wylie^[4] and John Henry Holland. He is one of the most connected scientists in the evolutionary computation field, having collaborated, among others, with Kalyanmoy Deb and Jeff Horn.

In 2003 David Goldberg was appointed as the first holder of Jerry S. Dobrovolny Professorship in Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[5]

Publications

• 1983. Computer-aided gas pipeline operation using genetic algorithms and rule learning, PhD thesis. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
• 1989. Genetic algorithms in search, optimization, and machine learning. Addison-Wesley.
• 1991. Real-coded genetic algorithms. Virtual alphabets, and blocking. Complex Systems 5, pp. 139–167.
• 1995. Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers. McGraw Hill
• 2002. The design of innovation: Lessons from and for competent genetic algorithms. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• 2006. The entrepreneurial engineer. Wiley.

References

1. ^ Illinois genetic algorithms laboratory
2. ^ Nextumi Inc.
3. ^ Most Cited Computer Science Citations, CiteSeerX
4. ^ E. Benjamin Wylie
5. ^ Inside Illinois Vol. 23, No. 9, Nov. 6, 2003

External links

• Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
• Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
• Distributed Innovation and Scalable Collaboration in Uncertain Settings

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Name	Goldberg, David E.
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Date of birth	1953
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