July 27, 2000

"Neural Checkers Player Featured on FOX News"

La Jolla, CA - Dr. David Fogel and Kumar Chellapilla of Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò were interviewed today for a special feature on their efforts to evolve a neural network that plays an expert game of checkers. The segment will appear tonight on FOX News in Los Angeles. Reporter Dave Garcia conducted the interview at Natural Selection, Inc.'s headquarters in La Jolla, California. The broadcast will be distributed to FOX affiliates across the nation.

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 http://www.natural-selection.com/.