6 Course Readers from John Koza's Courses at Stanford on Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming and Artificial Life (1993—2000)


Last updated December 6, 2003


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These course readers supplement the textbooks for the courses involved. They also contain information on the structure of the courses. These course readers are available from the Custom Publishing Department of the Stanford Bookstore. These volumes are available directly from the Stanford University Bookstore by calling 650-329-1217 or 800-533-2670 or by writing Stanford Bookstore, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-3079 USA. The E-Mail address of the bookstore for mail orders is mailorder@bookstore.stanford.edu. The WWW URL for the Stanford Bookstore is http://bookstore.stanford.edu/. Be sure to mention the ISBN number, the exact title, and refer to "Custom Publishing" when ordering these items to avoid confusion with the numerous other course readers, collections of student papers, and other materials at the Stanford Bookstore.


· Koza, John R. (editor). 1993. Course Reader for CS 425 (Artificial Life) for Winter Quarter 1993. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore. ISBN 0-18-171957-6.

This course reader contains 19 selected articles from the literature on artificial life. NOTE: The 1994 course reader (below) is more up-to-date.

· Koza, John R. (editor). 1994. Course Reader for CS 425 (Artificial Life) for Spring Quarter 1994. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore. ISBN 0-18-180299-6.

This course reader contains 20 selected articles from the literature on artificial life.

· Koza, John R. (editor). 1994. Course Reader for Computer Science 426 (Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming) for Fall Quarter 1994. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore. ISBN 0-18-183767-6.

This course reader contains 10 selected articles from the literature on genetic algorithms and genetic programming. The 1995 course reader (below) is more up-to-date.

· Koza, John R. (editor). 1995. Course Reader for Computer Science 426 (Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming) for Fall Quarter 1995 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore. ISBN 0-18-192183-9.

This course reader contains selected articles from the literature on genetic algorithms and genetic programming used in the Fall quarter 1995.

· Koza, John R. (editor). 1997. Course Reader for Computer Science 426 (Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming) for Winter Quarter 1997. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore.

This course reader contains15 selected articles from the literature on genetic algorithms and genetic programming used in the Winter quarter 1997.

· Koza, John R. (editor). 2000. CS 426 / MIS 226 / EE 392K: Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming Winter 2000 Course Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore. Number 2810000021091.

This course reader contains slide transparencies and course materials used in CS 426 / MIS 226 / EE 392K course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming in the Winter quarter 2000 at Stanford University.


Note that these course readers are different from the books of student papers. Click here for Books of Student Papers from John Koza's Courses at Stanford on Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming and Artificial Life (1993—2000). For additional information about John Koza’s course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University


· The home page of Genetic Programming Inc. at www.genetic-programming.com.

· For information about the field of genetic programming in general, visit www.genetic-programming.org

· The home page of John R. Koza at Genetic Programming Inc. (including online versions of most papers) and the home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University

· For information about John Koza’s course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University

· Information about the 1992 book Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, the 1994 book Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs, the 1999 book Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving, and the 2003 book Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence. Click here to read chapter 1 of Genetic Programming IV book in PDF format.

· For information on 3,198 papers (many on-line) on genetic programming (as of June 27, 2003) by over 900 authors, see William Langdon’s bibliography on genetic programming.

· For information on the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers

· For information on the Genetic Programming book series from Kluwer Academic Publishers, see the Call For Book Proposals

· For information about the annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference (which includes the annual GP conference) to be held on June 26–30, 2004 (Saturday – Wednesday) in Seattle and its sponsoring organization, the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC). For information about the annual Euro-Genetic-Programming Conference to be held on April 5-7, 2004 (Monday – Wednesday) at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra Portugal. For information about the 2003 and 2004 Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) workshops held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For information about Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP03) to be held in Canberra, Australia on December 8, 2003. For information about the annual NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware Conference (EH) to be held on June 24-26 (Thursday-Saturday), 2004 in Seattle.