On December 3, 2010 Melanie Mitchell received the 2010 Science Book Award for her book "Complexity: A Guided Tour" (Oxford University Press, 2009). This award is offered for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. Its purpose is to encourage literate and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics.
Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor and Member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and complex systems. Mitchell is the author or editor of five books and over 70 scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science and complex systems.
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