Dr. David Fogel, CEO, Featured in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Spring 2004 Newsletter

La Jolla, CA -- Dr. David Fogel, CEO of Natural Selection, Inc.^®, is featured in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Spring 2004 Newsletter. The feature article presents Dr. Fogel’s work on the Blondie24 technology, in which a computer taught itself to play checkers at expert level using an evolutionary neural network. Dr. Fogel is the co-creator of Blondie24 and an alumni of UCSD. Also featured in the article is an overview of Natural Selection, Inc.^®'s recent SBIR awards and the company’s other current computational projects, including applications in bioinformatics, financial forecasting, and homeland security.

The full article can be viewed at the Jacobs School website.

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