IlliGAL Blogging

I just saw Rob Smith's nice post on Peirce. Given the connections Rob makes, it should come as little surprise that genetic algorithms have an interesting intellectual lineage vis a vis Peirce. John Holland, genetic algorithm pioneer, was the first PhD in Communication Science (later Computer and Communications Science) at Michigan. Holland's dissertation advisor was Arthur W. Burks. Burks worked on the original ENIAC



(I believe Burks is the gentleman seated in the picture, but I can't confirm this in any of the web sources I could find) and founded Michigan's Logic of Computers Group. But Art Burks is also a Peirce scholar and edited the final two volumes of Harvard's Collected Papers of C. S. Peirce (see here) . Here is a listing of some of Art Burks's other books.