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Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel to Receive Inaugural IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
La Jolla, CA – Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel, President of Natural Selection, Inc., has been recognized with the 2006 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, a technical field award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award honors outstanding contributions to the advancement of neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. It is presented with a bronze medal, certificate, and cash honorarium. Dr. Fogel’s citation will read “For extraordinary and pioneering achievements in computational intelligence and evolutionary computation.” The award presentation will be made at the 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held July 16-21 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The award is named in honor of Frank Rosenblatt, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of neural networks.
Dr. Lawrence Fogel's extraordinary career spans over 45 years of achievement, professionalism, and excellence in biologically-inspired machine intelligence. His keen insight led to five patents (1958-1961) pertaining to two separate inventions regarding active noise cancellation and a revolutionary cockpit display. His contributions to machine intelligence began in 1960 when Dr. Fogel served at the National Science Foundation. There he studied the problem of creating artificial intelligence (AI) and devised a radical approach that relied on simulating evolution to literally evolve solutions to problems. Dr. Fogel termed his approach "evolutionary programming." Through Dr. Fogel's and others' leadership, this and other similar approaches have blossomed into an entire field of computer science called "evolutionary computation" that generates thousands of publications annually. He published his first of many papers on the approach in 1962.
Dr. Fogel pursued evolutionary programming at General Dynamics (1962-1965), at Decision Science, Inc. (1965-1982), Titan Systems, Inc. (1982-1987), and ORINCON Corporation (1988-1993). In 1993, Dr. Fogel started Natural Selection, Inc. with his son David and wife Eva. Through his leadership, the company’s software has been used in combat simulations supporting all branches of the U.S. military. Natural Selection, Inc.’s software is also used on a daily basis by pharmaceutical firms, such as Pfizer, in drug discovery. Other applications have included factory scheduling, optical character recognition, product risk screening for homeland security, intrusion detection, automatic target recognition, and even the design of intelligent characters in video games and financial forecasting.
Dr. Fogel received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 from the Evolutionary Programming Society, the first IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Award in Evolutionary Computation in 1998, and the first SPIE Computational Intelligence Pioneer Award (jointly with David Fogel) in 2003. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.
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 discovery of important patterns and processes in bioinformatics and medical informatics, computer-assisted diagnosis, and a variety of military and industrial projects.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. David B. Fogel
CEO
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
and please visit our web site at http://www.natural-selection.com/.