Natural Selection, Inc.^® Authors Place High in Amazon.com Rankings  

La Jolla, CA –Dr. Gary Fogel’s new book titled Evolutionary Computation and Bioinformatics (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002) is currently ranked in the top 10 (8th place) of all books in the category of artificial life on Amazon.com. The book offers a series of contributions by international authors that indicate the utility of evolutionary algorithms for addressing problems in bioinformatics and biotechnology. Dr. Fogel is a senior staff scientist at Natural Selection, Inc.^® and leads corporate efforts to address challenging problems in biology and medicine.

Also in Amazon.com’s top listings are Dr. David Fogel’s Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2001) and How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics (Springer, 1999, co-authored with Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz). Dr. Fogel is CEO of Natural Selection, Inc.^®. Blondie24 ranks in the top 20 of all general science books (19th place), placing third in artificial intelligence books and second in the category of machine learning. How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics remains the number one book in the artificial intelligence category of heuristics and constrained search, where it has placed consistently since its initial publication.

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.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. David B. Fogel
Chief Executive Officer
Natural Selection, Inc.
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.
Suite 200
La Jolla, CA, 92037
tel: (858) 455-6449
fax: (858) 455-1560
dfogel [at] natural-selection.com