John R. Koza

John R. Koza received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1972 under the supervision of John Holland. He was co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Scientific Games Inc. from 1973 through 1987 where he co-invented the rub-off instant lottery ticket used by state lotteries. He toon meer has taught a course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University since 1988. He is currently a consulting professor in the Biomedical Informatics Program in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University and a consulting professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University Martin A. Keane received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1969. He worked for Applied Devices Corporation until 1972, in the Mathematics Department at General Motors Laboratory until 1976, and was Vice-President for Engineering of Bally Manufacturing Corporation until 1986. He is currently chief scientist of Econometrics Inc. of Chicago and a consultant to various computer-related and gaming-related companies Matthew J. Streeter received a Masters degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2001. His Masters thesis applied genetic programming to the automated discovery of numerical approximation formulae for functions and surfaces. His primary research interest is applying genetic programming to problems of real-world scientific or practical importance. He is currently working at Genetic Programming Inc. as a systems programmer and researcher William Mydlowec is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Pharmix Corporation, a venture-funded computational drug discovery company in Silicon Valley. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1998. He formerly did research at Genetic Programming Inc. with John Koza between 1997 and 2000 Jessen Yu is Director of Engineering of Pharmix Corporation. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Chemistry from Stanford University. He formerly did research at Genetic Programming Inc. with John Koza between 1998 and 2000 Guido Lanza is Vice President of Biology and co-founder of Pharmix Corporation. He received his B.A. degree in 1998 from the University of California at Berkeley from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Department of Integrative Biology. He received an M.Sc. in 1999 in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester, UK. He formerly did research at Genetic Programming Inc. with John Koza in 2000 toon minder