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 President of Natural Selection, Inc., CEO of Natural Selection Financial, Inc., and co-founder and director of Effect Technologies, Inc., the maker of the EffectCheck sentiment analysis software tool. He is probably best known in artificial intelligence for his research project, Blondie24, in which a machine evolved itself into an expert checkers player. In further research, Dr. Fogel's Blondie25 evolutionary chess playing program earned wins over Fritz 8 (the fifth-ranked computer chess program in the world at the time) and was the first machine learning chess program to defeat a nationally-ranked human master (James Quon). Dr. Fogel was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and general chairman for the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He also founded the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. Dr. Fogel is a Fellow of the IEEE, and received the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He is the author of eight books and over 200 publications in evolutionary computing and neural networks. Dr. Fogel was president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2008-2009. He received an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the University of Pretoria and was named one of the top-100 most influential alumni from UC San Diego in 2009. He also received the CajAstur Prize in Soft Computing in 2010. Dr. Fogel has given hundreds of public lectures at conferences, museums, and for corporate events regarding diverse aspects of AI, including the prospects of how it will be used to benefit humanity in the future.

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