# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-koza
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:40:03.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-koza"
name: "John Koza"
slug: "john-koza"
description: "John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a former adjunct professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems. Koza co-founded Scientific Games Corporation, a company which builds computer systems to run state lotteries in the United States. John Koza is also credited with being the creator of the 'scratch card' with the help of retail promotions specialist Daniel Bower."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.551909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.genetic-programming.com/johnkoza.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0"
    title: "Джон Коза"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koza"
    title: "John Koza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koza"
    title: "John Koza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7"
    title: "جان کوزا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koza"
    title: "John Koza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koza"
    title: "John Koza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Коза, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2249447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump