Stephanie Forrest

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Stephanie Forrest (* 1958 ) is an American computer scientist.

Forrest studied at St. John's College (Annapolis, Santa Fe) with a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts in 1977 and computer science at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate with John Henry Holland in 1985 (Dissertation: A study of parallelism in the classifier system and its application to classification in KL-ONE semantic networks). She then worked at Teknowledge Inc. in Palo Alto and from 1988 to 1990 as a post-doctoral student and Director's Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Center for Nonlinear Studies). She became Assistant Professor in 1990, Associate Professor in 1994 and Professor of Computer Science in 1999 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she became Regents Professor in 2012 and Distinguished Professor in 2013. From 2006 to 2011 she headed the computer science faculty. From 2001 she was also in the Faculty of Biology.

It deals with computer security, automatic software repair and later mainly with relationships between biology and computer science (modeling of biological systems as in immunology, genetic algorithms ). She also applies ideas from biology and immunology to computer security issues.

In 1991 she received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. She is an IEEE Fellow and held the Stanislaw Ulam Lecture at the Santa Fe Institute in 2013 , where she was research professor from 2003 to 2006 (partly in a sabbatical year) and part of the external faculty. From 2010 to 2013 she was co-chair of its Science Board. In 1996/97 she was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2011 she received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award .

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: Emergent Computation, MIT Press 1991
  • Genetic Algorithms. Principles of natural selection applied to computation, Science, Volume 261, 1993, pp. 872-878
  • with M. Mitchell: Genetic algorithms and artificial life, in: Artificial Life, Volume 1, 1994, pp. 267-289
  • with Lawrence Allen, Alan Perelson, Rajesh Cherukuri: Self-Nonself Discrimination in a Computer, Proc. IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, 1994, pdf
  • Genetic Algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 28, 1996, pp. 77-80
  • with S. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji: Computer Immunology, Communications of the ACM, Volume 40, 1997, pp. 88-96
  • with S. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji, Thomas A. Longstaff: A sense of self for unix processes, Proc. IEEE Symp. On Security and Privacy, 1996, pdf
  • with S. Hofmeyr, Anil Somayaji: Intrusion detection using sequences of system calls, Journal of computer security, Volume 6, 1998, pp. 151-180.
  • with Christina Warrender, Barak Pearlmutter: Detecting intrusions using system calls: Alternative data models, Proc. IEEE Symp. Security and Privacy
  • with Steven Hofmeyr: Architecture for an artificial immune system, Evolutionary computation, Volume 8, 2000, pp. 443-473.
  • as editor with L. Booker, M. Mitchell, Riolo: Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • with C. Le Goues, M. Dewey-Vogt, W. Weimer: A Systematic Study of Automated Program Repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 Bugs for $ 8.00 Each, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'12), 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Forrest in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Forrest, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958