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The IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence has published a special issue on Human-Machine Symbiosis. Hussein Abbass, Gary Fogel, and Justin Fidock served as guest editors. The issue is now available online here:. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp

If you are attending IEEE WCCI 2018 in Rio, don't miss out on the IEEE N3XT Entrepreneurship panel at 4:30pm today - learn all about start ups making use of computational intelligence!

NSI is pleased to announce that Dr. George Burgin will be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the AIAA San Diego Section for his pioneering efforts over multiple decades using evolutionary computation for aerospace applications. Working with Dr. Lawrence Fogel and under funding from NASA Langley, Burgin succeeded in programming the "Adaptive Maneuvering Logic" that was used for air-to-air combat flight training in the 1970s-1980s. Burgin also demonstrated the value of... evolutionary computation in the control logic of supersonic aircraft. Already recognized by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for his pioneering efforts in evolutionary algorithms and games, it is great to see Burgin also receive recognition for his many efforts to bring machine learning to aerospace. Congratulations Dr. Burgin! The AIAA Awards banquet will be held May 10 from 5:30-9pm in San Diego. More information is available via the AIAA-SD section here: https://squareup.com/store/aiaa-san-diego-section/

David Fogel's recent lecture on "Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Applications" in Kaohsiung, Taiwan can now be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MU3vLI9pp4

Looking forward to today's ACSESS meeting at San Diego State University to hear about the latest efforts by students at the Computational Science Research Center.

Dr. David Fogel will be giving invited lectures as the guest of the Taiwan Ministry of Science and a Technology on artificial intelligence applied to healthcare and problems in industry. His lectures include visits to Taipei, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. His talks will be transmitted live on Facebook

This is an important week for one of our projects. A little over a year ago, Dr. Bob Penner met with us at Natural Selection, Inc. and asked if we could help with an app that would assist him in figuring out which of his clothes go together. You see, he's color blind. He can tell you some very funny stories that have resulted from his "color deficiency." So with machine learning to determine how to label colors, expert rules on how colors go together based on different types ...of clothing, and an expert app programmer, today the Color Butler 2018 app has launched in the iPhone app store. It's free so go download the app and check it out. Color blindness affects about 1 in 12 males (you might think higher!) and so it's likely there's someone you know who'd benefit from this app. We hope to eventually expand the app for women soon. https://itunes.apple.com///color-butler-2018/id1331148988

Pleased to report that the recent Journal of Neurovirology paper mentioned below has just been published and featured on the cover of the issue.

Here is our latest research published in the Journal of Neurovirology using evolved neural networks to help identify brain-specific protein factors in HIV patients with neurological disease. This is as part of a collaboration with researchers at BioInfoExperts and UC San Francisco under funding by the National Institutes of Health.

NSI personnel Gary Fogel and Enoch Liu are associated with two posters being presented today at the 16th International Conference on Malignancies in HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health in DC. Their NIH funded research is in collaboration with others at BioInfoExperts, UCSF, and the Mayo Clinic. http://event.capconcorp.com/wp/imc-aids/

Gary Fogel and co-authors have a new paper out in the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling on the evolution of the structure of dihydrofolate reductase in Bacilli. Dihydrofolate reductase is a major target for anti-malarial drug discovery.

Gary Fogel will be providing a lecture "A Survey of Applications and Future Directions of Computational Intelligence" on December 5 from 3-4pm at the Gold Auditorium of the Bioscience Center at San Diego State University. The lecture is being sponsored by the SDSU Computational Science Research Center.