January 13, 2000

Evolutionary Checkers' Playing Program Featured in Le Monde

La Jolla, CA - The French daily newspaper Le Monde featured a story on the evolutionary checkers' playing program devised by Dr. David B. Fogel, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò , and Kumar Chellapilla, a Ph.D. student at the University of California at San Diego. The program has evolved to a level that is competitive with human expert players simply by teaching itself how to play. For a copy of the French article, click here. For more information on the evolutionary checkers program please contact Dr. Fogel.

Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò 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@natural-selection.com

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