Dr. Lawrence Fogel Elected Fellow of IEEE

Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel, president of Natural Selection, Inc., was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his original contributions to the field of evolutionary computation. The award is effective January 1, 1998.

The grade of Fellow is the highest level of membership in the IEEE, the world's largest organization of engineers with over 320,000 members in 147 countries. Fellow grade recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the IEEE's Board of Directors upon individuals who have attained senior membership in the IEEE following a lengthy nomination and committee review process. Fewer than 1 in 1000 of the IEEE's members were elected Fellows this year.

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.