Boston’s Museum Of Science Features “Evolutionary Checkers Starring Blondie24” by Digenetics, Inc.

Boston, MA -- The Boston Museum of Science’s Cahners ComputerPlace is now exhibiting “Evolutionary Checkers Starring Blondie24,” published by Digenetics, Inc., a sister company to Natural Selection, Inc. The museum’s exhibit offers several hands-on demonstrations of artificial intelligence and other technologies. Accompanying Blondie24, the evolutionary neural network that taught itself to play checkers at a level that is on par with human experts, are programs from Ray Kurzweil, including Aaron, a cybernetic artist, and another program that composes poetry.

“The feedback from the museum has been very positive,” noted Dr. David Fogel, CEO of Natural Selection, Inc., and co-creator of Blondie24, who added, “we have reports of some individuals making repeat visits to the museum to play against Blondie, even three days in a row. It’s great to be able to bring the cutting-edge of science in evolutionary and neural computation to the general public in this way.” Dr. Fogel remarked that Blondie24’s next evolution from checkers to chess is progressing and that a new chess game is scheduled for release before the holiday season.

Natural Selection, Inc.^® 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,
Chief Executive Officer,
Natural Selection, Inc.,
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.,
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tel: (858) 455-6449
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dfogel [at] natural-selection.com