Dr. David Fogel to Give Keynotes at Two Intl. Confs.

La Jolla, CA: Dr. David B. Fogel, executive vice president and chief scientist of Natural Selection, Inc. in La Jolla, CA, will present keynote lectures at two international conferences held in Europe in the coming week. On September 1, 1997, he will present "Advantages of Evolutionary Computation," at the BioComputing and Emergent Computation 1997 (BCEC97) Conference in Skovde, Sweden, followed on September 4, 1997 by "The Missing Link between Theory and Practice in Evolutionary Computation" at the Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA97) Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. These lectures will discuss the practical benefits of using evolutionary algorithms for real-world problem solving, as well as the limitations of prior theory in evolutionary algorithms, and the potential for novel approaches to designing successful applications.

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.