NSI Selected as 5th Choice by Peers in Business Week Survey

La Jolla, CA: In a recent Business Week survey on international research institutions, published in the June 26, 1997 issue, respondents were asked if they were 35 years old "and had just won the first Nobel Prize for Information Technology, triggering invitations to any lab of your choice, which one would you pick?" Natural Selection, Inc. was selected as a 5th choice in the area of biologically-inspired information technology, including artificial life and genetic algorithms. The survey results can be found on the Internet at www.businessweek.com. Natural Selection, Inc. was the only corporation to receive such recognition, ranking equally with the Naval Research Lab, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Illinois.

Natural Selection, Inc. was founded in 1993 to address complex problems in industry, medicine, and defense. The company possesses unique expertise in computational intelligence techniques, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic. The corporation's current research efforts support the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, the automated detection and diagnosis of breast cancer from film-screen mammograms, optical character recognition, and a variety of military projects.

For more information, please contact

Dr. David B. Fogel,
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientist,
Natural Selection, Inc.,
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.,
Suite 200,
La Jolla, CA, 92037
tel: (619) 455-6449
fax: (619) 455-1560
dfogel@natural-selection.com

and please visit our web site at www.natural-selection.com.