GECCO-2004-Tutorial-2004-4-20

1 INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL GECCO-2004—SEATTLE SUNDAY JUNE 27, 2004 John R. Koza Consulting Professor (Medical Informatics) Department of Medicine School of Medicine Consulting Professor Department of Electrical Engineering School of Engineering Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 E-MAIL: koza@stanford.edu http://www.smi.stanford.edu/people/koza/ http://www.genetic-programming.org http://www.genetic-programming.com 2 THE CHALLENGE "How can computers learn to solve problems without being explicitly programmed? In other words, how can computers be made to do what is needed to be done, without being told exactly how to do it?" ⎯ Attributed to Arthur Samuel (1959) CRITERION FOR SUCCESS "The aim [is] ... to get machines to exhibit behavior, which if done by humans, would be assumed to involve the use of intelligence." ⎯ Arthur Samuel (1983) 3 MAIN POINTS • Genetic programming now routinely delivers high-return human-competitive machine intelligence. ...