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Yes, genetic programming arguably goes back to Turing which is way back in the day, but the term superoptimizer goes back to Henry Masselin's 1987 paper, Supero
by CalChris 6y ago
Yes, genetic programming arguably goes back to Turing which is way back in the day, but the term superoptimizer goes back to Henry Masselin's 1987 paper, Superoptimizer - a look at the smallest program.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/cs343-annot-superopt.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/cs343-annot-s...
- jonahbenton 6y agoThanks for the pointer. Yeah, re: GP I was more referring to the work that came with Holland and after. Re: "smallest program" I will always think of Tom Ray's Tierra. Went to a demo of his in 1991, mind-blowing. https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/tierra_thomas_ray.pdf https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/tierra_thom...