David Edward Goldberg (born September 26, 1953) is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

, civil engineer, and former professor. Until 2010, he was a professor in the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

and was noted for his work in the field of

genetic algorithms In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Genetic algorithms are commonly used to gene ...

. He was the director of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) and the co-founder & chief scientist of Nextumi, which later changed its name to ShareThis. He is the author of ''Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning'', one of the most cited books in computer science.

Early life and education

David E. Goldberg received a PhD in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

in 1983 from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. His advisors were E. Benjamin Wylie and

John Henry Holland John Henry Holland (February 2, 1929 – August 9, 2015) was an American scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became ...

. His students including Kalyanmoy Deb, Jeff Horn, and Hillol Kargupta. In 2003 David Goldberg was appointed as the first holder of Jerry S. Dobrovolny Professorship in Entrepreneurial Engineering at the

.''Inside Illinois''
Vol. 23, No. 9, Nov. 6, 2003

Publications

* 1983. ''Computer-aided gas pipeline operation using genetic algorithms and rule learning'', PhD thesis. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. * 1989. ''Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning''. Addison-Wesley. * 1991. ''Real-coded genetic algorithms, virtual alphabets, and blocking''. Complex Systems 5, pp. 139–167. * 1995. ''Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers''. McGraw Hill * 2002. ''The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms''. Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 2006. ''The Entrepreneurial Engineer''. Wiley. * 2014. ''A Whole New Engineer'', with Mark Somerville. ThreeJoy.

References

External links

Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

Distributed Innovation and Scalable Collaboration in Uncertain Settings
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldberg, David E. 1953 births American computer scientists 20th-century American Jews Living people Theoretical computer scientists University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni 21st-century American Jews