William M. Spears
Computer Scientist,
Machine Learning Section
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial
Intelligence
Naval Research Laboratory
Code 5514, Washington DC 20375-5337
spears@aic.nrl.navy.mil
The portrait of R. William Spears was drawn by
Diana Gordon.
Biography
William M. Spears received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1984. He received his Masters
in Computer Science from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, in
January 1990, and is currently in the Computer Science PhD program. He has
been employed at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C, since 1985.
His current interests are
genetic algorithms, neural networks, simulated
annealing, machine learning, operations research, boolean satisfiability,
parallelism, and 1968-1972 Chevy Novas.
He moderated a panel discussion on the No-Free-Lunch (NFL) theorems at ICGA95.
For information and papers click here.
Selected Publications and Freeware
(Increases about 3 per second)
William M. Spears, Naval Research Laboratory,
spears@aic.nrl.navy.mil