February 29, 2000

Larry Fogel Gives Banquet Speech at the 2000 Joint Conference on Information Sciences

Atlantic City, NJ - Larry Fogel, president of Natural Selection, Inc., is the guest of honor tonight at the 2000 Joint Conference on Information Sciences held at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Dr. Fogel will present the banquet speech titled "The Valuated State Space Approach and Evolutionary Computation." He will highlight the importance of quantifying the purpose to be achieved in problem solving and the flexible nature of evolutionary algorithms for addressing many real-world problems. The conference is a joint meeting of many symposia covering topics in evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, fuzzy logic, data mining, and other information sciences.

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.