Dr. David Fogel to Present Short Course on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security

La Jolla, CA -- Dr. David Fogel, CEO of Natural Selection, Inc.^®, will present a four-hour short course titled “Computational Intelligence in Homeland Security Applications” at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 14, 2004, at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The course will provide attendees with an introduction to the fundamentals of neural networks and evolutionary computation and the manner in which they can be applied to applications in homeland security. The course will concentrate on applying computational intelligence methods to pattern discovery and recognition in security problems with examples in areas including risk assessment, physical security, and personal identification. Attendees will also receive the text Evolutionary Computation: Principles and Practice for Signal Processing, authored by Dr. Fogel and published by SPIE Press (2000). For more information on this short course or the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, please visit www.spie.org/info/dss.

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@natural-selection.com