Dr. Lawrence Fogel Gives Plenary at 1997 Semiotics Conf.

La Jolla, CA: Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel, president of Natural Selection, Inc. in La Jolla, CA, will serve as a plenary speaker at the Intelligent Systems and Semiotics: A Learning Perspective (ISAS97) Conference, held at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Sept. 22-25, 1997. Dr. Fogel's address "Optimizing Evolutionary Computation," will focus on the historical development of evolutionary algorithms and the prospects for practical implementation of these techniques. Additional plenary speakers include Dr. James S. Albus and Dr. Alexander M. Meystel of NIST, and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh of UC Berkeley.

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.