David Fogel News
Locating “Spiritual” Experiences in the Brain
Researchers at Yale University have identified activity in the parietal cortex as being common across individuals reporting "spiritual experiences." (June 1, 2018)
read morePath of Totality: Eclipse 2017 Wins Telly Award
The video Path of Totality: Eclipse 2017, with videography by Joe Woolbright, and music that I composed, along with sound engineering by Gary Gray and Peter Sprague, has won a Telly Award for Best Use of Music (Non-Broadcast Media). Needless to say, our whole team is thrilled with this news! (May 22, 2018)
read moreBob King Publishes New Book on the Night Sky
I've posted a review of Bob King's new book "Wonders of the Night Sky You Must See Before You Die" on Amazon.com. This is a great book and I highly recommend it. (May 15, 2018)
read moreGeorge Burgin Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Natural Selection, Inc. 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 (my dad) 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, I’m thrilled to see him also receive recognition for his many efforts to bring machine learning to aerospace! (Apr 19, 2018)
read moreGary Fogel and Team Honored by National Aeronautic Association
Last year, my brother (Gary Fogel) and his team of merry gentlemen completed an incredible achievement in model aviation: a goal and return flight of over 139 MILES! This crushed the previous record of 99 miles and now has been recognized by the National Aeronautic Association as one of the 7 most memorable aviation records of 2017. All of the record setters will be honored at NAA’s Summer Awards Ceremony which will be held on May 16, 2018 at the Lockheed Martin Fighter Demonstration Center in Arlington, Virginia. Way to go!!
read moreYouTube Posts My Talk from Kaohsiung, Taiwan: AI in Industry
With thanks to Professor Chang-Shing Lee, a video of my talk on AI in Industry from Kaohsiung, Taiwan at the end of March is now on YouTube.
read moreInserting Old Genes into New Bacteria
Researchers from the University of Arizona are inserting old genes into E. coli and then observing how the genes evolve, essentially doing an instant replay on evolution to see how consistent the evolutionary path is. (Mar 15, 2018)
read moreSentient Technologies Offers New Demos in Evolutionary Computation and Other AI
My colleague and friend Dr. Risto Miikkulainen of Sentient Technologies, let me know that Sentient now has several new demos in evolutionary computation (and other AI algoriths) available at their website. Risto is a pioneer in combining evolutionary computation with neural networks and I encourage you to have a look at their site. (Mar 14, 2018)
read moreColor Butler 2018 Launches in the iPhone App Store
Today’s an important day 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.
And, as a little side story, today is the first day that my music is published on the app store, and with me performing. I composed the theme song to the app, called Colors of Life. It plays during the tutorial. (You can turn it off if you like, but I’d rather you turn it up and enjoy it.) The track that is playing has me on all parts, including my dad’s old tenor sax. We do have a nicer recording with Jim Weiss recorded at Peter Sprague’s studio that we’ll be swapping in soon. But for now, you can listen to me… and I hope you do and I hope you enjoy it. We’ll have it on iTunes in the future in case you’d like to have your own copy.
Oh, and you can also watch for more info at www.colorbutler.com.
read moreTesting for Vision/Motor Tasks Identifies Better Baseball Hitters
Baseball players with high scores on vision and motor tasks had higher on-base percentage (OBP) and fewer strikeouts, as identified by researchers at Duke Health (Feb. 2, 2018)
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