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SUMMARY:Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Christos Papadimitriou\, University California Berkeley\
 , USA\nAbstract:\nI shall discuss recent work (much of it joint with biolo
 gists Adi Livnat and Marcus Feldman) on some central problems in Evolution
  that was inspired and informed by computational ideas. Considerations abo
 ut the performance of genetic algorithms led to a novel theory on the role
  of sex in Evolution based on the concept of mixability. And a natural ran
 dom process on Boolean functions can help us understand better Waddington'
 s genetic assimilation phenomenon\, in which an acquired trait becomes gen
 etic\, and the emergence of a trait in a population in the absence of muta
 tion.\n\nBio:\nI studied in Athens Polytechnic (BS in EE 1972) and Princet
 on (MS in EE\, 1974 and PhD in EECS\, 1976).\nSince then\, I have taught a
 t Harvard\, MIT\, Athens Polytechnic\, Stanford\, and UCSD.\nI came to Ber
 keley in January 1996 (but I was here also in 1978 as a Miller fellow).\nI
  am interested in the theory of algorithms and complexity\, and its applic
 ations to databases\, optimization\, AI\, networks\, game theory\, and evo
 lution.
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