January 14, 1999

Dr. David Fogel Special Guest on "Technology and You"

La Jolla, CA: Dr. David Fogel, executive vice president and chief scientist of Natural Selection, Inc., was the featured guest today on the one-hour radio program "Technology and You," hosted by Prof. Marty Kalinski on KVEC, the ABC affiliate in San Luis Obispo. Dr. Fogel discussed Natural Selection, Inc.'s efforts to develop evolutionary algorithms for solving difficult problems in factory scheduling, dynamic dispatching, pharmaceutical design, and related issues in artificial intelligence research.

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 [at] natural-selection.com

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