November 10, 1999

Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò Participates in Industry-University Roundtable

La Jolla, CA: Natural Selection, Inc. participated in the inaugural San Diego Industry-University Roundtable where industry leaders and university luminaries met to share visions about next generation technologies. Senior executives, chief technologists, noted entrepreneurs, and prominent technology alliance leaders from leading California companies and organizations, including Creative Artists Agency, CalTrans, EON Reality, Hughes-JVC Technologies, Innovatv.com, Maxwell Technologies, Natural Selection Inc., QUALCOMM, and others, met to exchange ideas with more than a dozen internationally acclaimed faculty representing University of California’s system-wide campuses. QUALCOMM’s Founder, Chairman, and CEO Irwin Mark Jacobs keynoted the roundtable. The meeting was the fourth in a series of roundtables launched by the University of California Digital Media Innovation Program (DiMI) designed to facilitate future discoveries, research and products in digital technology through industry-university partnerships. Natural Selection, Inc. is currently teaming with the University of California at San Diego on a Phase II STTR in support of the U.S. Army.

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 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 and industrial 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.