John Koza

John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems. He was a cofounder of Scientific Games Corporation, a company which built computer systems to run state lotteries in the United States. Koza has a PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan (1972). His thesis was titled On Inducing a No... more

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