Education
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1990 from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, for which she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture.
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1990 from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, for which she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture.
She has worked at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her major work has been in the areas of analogical reasoning, Complex Systems, genetic algorithms and cellular automata, and her publications in those fields are frequently cited. She is the author of "Analogy-Making as Perception", essentially a book about Copycat.
She has also critiqued Stephen Wolfram"s A New Kind of Science and showed that genetic algorithms could find better solutions to the majority problem for one-dimensional cellular automata.
She is the author of An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, a widely known introductory book published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press in 1996. Cambridge, Mass: Perseus. p.