John Maynard Smith, (January 6, 1920 – April 19, 2004 [1]) was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and latterly Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. In 1961 John Maynard Smith created a chess machine called SOMA, the Smith One-Move Analyzer, as a challenger of Donald Michie's and Shaun Wylie's early program Machiavelli from 1947-48 [2], of whose method of working he was in ignorance [3]. Later John Maynard Smith built a SOMA-Machiavelli hybrid named SOMAC (SOMA with features taken from the Machiavelli) [4]. This machine, when allowed a lookahead of two, has a standard of play equal to that of a mediocre human player ... [5][6]. In 1973 Maynard Smith formalized a central concept in game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price and published in 1982 [7].
John Maynard Smith [8]

Selected Publications

• John Maynard Smith (1958). The Theory of Evolution. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex], Penguin Books.
• John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie (1961). Machines that play games. New Scientist, 12, 367-9. google books
• Jack Good, A. J. Mayne, John Maynard Smith (eds.) (1962). The Scientist Speculates. Heinemann
• Donald Michie (1966). Game Playing and Game Learning Automata. Advances in Programming and Non-Numerical Computation, Leslie Fox (ed.), pp. 183-200. Oxford, Pergamon. Includes Appendix: Rules of SOMAC by John Maynard Smith ^[10]
• John Maynard Smith and George R. Price (1973). The logic of animal conflict. Nature 246:15-18
• John Maynard Smith (1982). Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press.
  
• John Maynard Smith (1988). Games, Sex, and Evolution. New York, Harvester-Wheatsheaf.
• John Maynard Smith (1989). Evolutionary Genetics. Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press.
• John Maynard Smith (1992). Byte-sized evolution. Nature 355, 772-773
• John Maynard Smith (1996). The games lizards play. Nature 380, 198-199
• Manfred D. Laubichler, Edward H. Hagen and Peter Hammerstein (2005). The Strategy Concept and John Maynard Smith’s Influence on Theoretical Biology. pdf
• Karl Sigmund (2005). John Maynard Smith and Evolutionary Game Theory. Interim Report IR-05-076, pdf

External Links

• John Maynard Smith from Wikipedia
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - John Maynard Smith
• John Maynard Smith from Centre for the Study of Evolution - University of Sussex
• Modern Theorist Biographies - Section 1
• John Maynard Smith - Seven Wonders of the World, YouTube Video
  

References

1. ^ Evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith dies from University of Sussex
2. ^ Chronology of Computing compiled by David Singmaster
3. ^ John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie (1961). Machines that play games. New Scientist, 12, 367-9. google books
4. ^ Donald Michie (1966). Game Playing and Game Learning Automata. Advances in Programming and Non-Numerical Computation, Leslie Fox (ed.), pp 183-200. Oxford, Pergamon. » Includes Appendix: Rules of SOMAC by John Maynard Smith
5. ^ Leslie Fox (1966). Advances in programming and non-numerical computation. Pergamon
6. ^ Donald Michie (1974). On Machine Intelligence. Edinburgh: University Press, ISBN 10: 085224262X, ISBN 13: 9780852242629, abebooks.com, alibris.com, biblio.com
7. ^ John Maynard Smith (1982). Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press.
8. ^ John Maynard Smith from Centre for the Study of Evolution - University of Sussex
9. ^ Publications of John Maynard Smith (pdf)
10. ^ see Swap-off by Helmut Richter

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