December 21, 2000

New IEEE Educational CD on Evolutionary Computation Released 

La Jolla, CA - Dr. David Fogel, executive vice president and chief scientist of Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò, is pleased to announce that the IEEE Educational Activities Department has teamed with the IEEE Neural Networks Council to produce a new educational CD on evolutionary computation. The CD is titled "Evolutionary Computation and Applications," and provides significant introductory material on evolutionary computation presented by Dr. Fogel, along with three case studies in applying evolutionary computation to real-world problems offered by Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawi (Univ. Washington), Dr. Piero Bonissone (GE), and Dr. Stephan Freer (Agouron Pharmaceuticals). A round table discussion between the four participants concludes the presentation. For more information, please email customer.service@ieee.org.

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/.