October 25, 2000

Kumar Chellapilla Gives Keynote Lecture at Learning'00

Madrid, Spain - Kumar Chellapilla, senior staff scientist of Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò, opened the Learning'00 conference in Madrid, Spain with his keynote lecture, titled "Evolving an expert checkers player without using human expertise." Chellapilla's talk featured the groundbreaking research in coevolutionary learning in the game of checkers, performed in collaboration with Dr. David Fogel, executive vice president and chief scientist. "This was an important venue to discuss our research," said Chellapilla. He continued, "this meeting brought together a wide range of people interested in all forms of learning." Evolutionary computation is going to play an increasing role in machine learning, and it's important to identify the similarities between evolutionary learning and other forms of learning."

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

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