September 19, 2000

Dr. David Fogel of NSI is special guest on "These Days"

San Diego, CA - Dr. David Fogel, executive vice president and chief scientist of Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò, was a special guest on the KPBS radio program "These Days" this morning. The show aired from 10:00 am to 11:00 am and was hosted by Tom Fudge. Dr. Fogel discussed recent advances in using evolutionary algorithms to achieve artificial intelligence, in particular, focusing on efforts that he has worked on in collaboration with Kumar Chellapilla where a computer has taught itself to play expert-level checkers. Mr. Chellapilla is a senior staff scientist at Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò

Also joining in the radio program was Professor Jordan Pollack, associate professor at Brandeis University. Dr. Pollack spoke about his efforts to have computers learn to evolve robots, which appeared recently in the journal Nature.

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/.