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The Computational Beauty of Nature

Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

The Author

Gary William Flake is the Principal Scientist of Yahoo! and the founder and Head of Yahoo! Research Labs. He resides in northern California with his wife, son, and two adopted pit bulls.

His research interests include low complexity models, models of adaptation inspired by nature, neural network algorithms and architectures, nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, time series forecasting, system identification, pattern classification, model-based control, numerical optimization algorithms, database mining, graph clustering, web metrics, web searching, and network flow algorithms.

He has been affiliated with Clemson University, The Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, The University of Maryland, MIT's Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Siemens Corporate Research, and NEC Research Institute.


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