September 11, 2000

Dr. David Fogel Quoted in U.S. News & World Report

La Jolla, CA - Dr. David Fogel was quoted in today's article titled "Out of the Digital Ooze, Robotic Life: Designs that Evolve without Human Aid," written by Charles Petit. The article describes experiments conducted by Professor Jordan Pollack of Brandeis University where an evolutionary algorithm has designed mobile robots that were then fabricated and demonstrated to have similar properties to those evolved in simulation. Dr. Pollack's work appeared in the science journal Nature. " 'It is clear that evolution can do things that people cannot possibly do on their own,' says David Fogel, chief scientist of Natural Selection, Inc., a company in La Jolla, Calif., that evolves solutions to problems in business and other fields ... 'The more people accept evolution as a design tool, the easier it is to see that it has been used by nature.' " Dr. Fogel and Professor Pollack will be appearing on the KPBS radio show "These Days" on Tuesday, September 19, 2000, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., to discuss the implications of evolutionary computation for artificial intelligence.

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.

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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

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