November 7, 2000

Dr. David Fogel Gives Plenary Lecture at ANNIE2000

St. Louis, MO - Dr. David Fogel, executive vice president and chief scientist of Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò, gave a plenary lecture at the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE) 2000 conference in St. Louis. The title of his presentation was "Evolving Solutions that are Competitive with Humans," which focused on Dr. Fogel's recent efforts in collaboration with Kumar Chellapilla, senior staff scientist, that allow a computer to teach itself how to play checkers at the level of human experts.

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/.