David B. Fogel

Dr. David B. Fogel (born February 2, 1964), is a pioneer in evolutionary computation. Dr. Fogel received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1992. He is currently CEO of Natural Selection, Inc.^[1] He is probably best known for his research project, Blondie24, in which a machine evolved itself into an expert checkers player. Dr. Fogel was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,^[2] and general chairman for the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.^[3] He is currently editor-in-chief of BioSystems.^[4]

Dr. Fogel is a Fellow of the IEEE,^[5] and received the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award.^[6] He is the author of six books and over 200 publications in evolutionary computing and neural networks. Dr. Fogel was president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2008-2009.^[7]

References

1. ^ People, Natural Selection, Inc., retrieved 2010-01-25.
2. ^ Evolutionary Computation: A New Transactions, David B. Fogel, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Editorial, retrieved 2010-01-25.
3. ^ WCCI History, retrieved 2010-01-25.
4. ^ BioSystems editorial board, retrieved 2010-01-25.
5. ^ Bezdek, J. (2008), "IEEE Fellows-Class of 2008 [Society Briefs]", Computational Intelligence Magazine (IEEE) 3 (2): 5–9, doi:10.1109/MCI.2008.919062 .
6. ^ David Fogel receives 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, "AAAI News", AI Magazine: 9, September 22, 2004, http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1779 .
7. ^ IEEE CIS Officers, retrieved 2010-01-25.

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