Biography
Holland was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1929. He studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a B.S. degree in 1950, then studied Mathematics at the University of Michigan, receiving an M.A. in 1954. In 1959 he received the first computer science Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is now Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Holland is a member of The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan, and a member of the Board of Trustees and Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a fellow of the World Economic Forum.
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