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Koza has a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Michigan (1972).
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John Koza
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He was a cofounder of Scientific Games Corporation, a company which built computer systems to run state lotteries in the United States. His thesis was titled On Inducing a Non-Trivial, Parsimonious Grammar for a Given Sample of Sentences. John Koza has his own company Genetic Programming Incorporated., and uses a 1000 node Beowulf cluster, composed of Pentium II and DEC Alpha processors, to do his research.
Koza was featured in Popular Science for his work on evolutionary programming that alters its own code to find far more complex solutions.
The machine, which he calls the "invention machine", has created antennae, circuits, and lenses, and has received a patent from the United States Patent Office. In 2006 Koza suggested a plan to revamp the Electoral College in the United States such that candidates would be elected by a National Popular Vote.
