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September 1, 1999

Dr. David B. Fogel Publishes Second Edition of Best-Selling Book

La Jolla, CA: Dr. David B. Fogel has now published the second edition of his best-selling book Evolutionary Computation: Toward a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence through the IEEE Press. The book was originally selected as a feature choice of the Library of Science Book Club. Evolutionary computation is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, and is particularly useful in generating solutions to problems that involve competitive aspects. Dr. Fogel's book describes some breakthrough results in the use of evolutionary algorithms to learn strategies in games of strategy, including checkers. Starting with essentially no preprogrammed expertise regarding features about the game, an evolutionary algorithm was able to design artificial neural networks that can play and defeat humans on the Internet. This type of domain independent machine learning based only on the outcome of a game, or even a series of games, was described as being simply "impossible" by Alan Newell in 1963. Fogel's book also provides an up-to-date treatment of the theory of evolutionary computation, including the no free lunch theorem, schema theory, and the k-armed bandit problem. The book is available from Amazon.com or other booksellers.

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Natural Selection, Inc.,
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.,
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