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From: John McDonnell <mcdonn@cod.nosc.mil>
Subject: THANKS TO EP95 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 03:05:00 GMT
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As a final note to The Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary 
Programming, EP95, I would like to take a minute to inform the 
evolutionary computing community about the Evolutionary Programming 
Society that hosts the annual event and thank all involved for 
their hard work.  The Evolutionary Programming Society was formed by 
individuals who are interested in the research and application of 
evolutionary programming and similar approaches.  Membership is open 
to all individuals who share a similar interest.  Please contact me 
for more information on becoming a member.  This society has now sponsored 
four successful conferences.  The most recent of which was held in San 
Diego, California, March 1-3, 1995.

Thanks goes to the technical program chairs David Fogel and Bob Reynolds.  
Their extraordinary effort in putting together the program was reflected 
by the high caliber of the conference.  Additional thanks to David for 
arranging a top-notch facility to host the conference and provide refreshments. 

Special thanks to Bill Porto for his hard work in setting up the registration 
and handling the finances.  Bill's consistency is the backbone of the annual 
event.  

I would also like to thank the program committee, 

Peter Angeline, Loral Federal Systems
Wirt Atmar, AICS
Thomas Baeck, Univ. of Dortmund
William Brown, Jackson State Univ.
Michael Conrad, Wayne State Univ.
Ken De Jong, George Mason Univ.
Tom English, Texas Tech Univ.
Gary Fogel, UCLA
Larry Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc.
Gerry Joyce, Scripps Research
Kevin Kirby, Northern Kentucky Univ.
Ward Page, NCCOSC, RDT&E Div.
Mark Perlin, Carnegie Mellon
Marteen Rizki, Wright State Univ.
Stuart Rubin, Central Michigan Univ.
Saravan Saravanan, ETA Inc.
Hans-Paul Schwefel, Univ. of Dortmund
Tony Sebald, UCSD
Bill Spears, NRL

for taking the time to review all of the many submissions.  Your recommendations 
resulted in a high quality conference.
  
As usual, thanks goes to all of this years participants who really made the 
conference the success that it was.  It has been my pleasure to serve you.  
The proceedings will be published in 3-4 months by MIT Press as Evolutionary 
Programming IV.

Congratulations to Bill Spears on his $500 award for best student paper.

Finally, look for the CFP from the chairmen for EP96, 

Larry Fogel,      General Chair
Peter Angeline, Technical co-Chair
Thomas Baeck, Technical co-Chair
Tom English,    Technical co-Chair

Looking forward to next year,

John McDonnell
General Chair, EP95 and EPS President
mcdonn@cod.nosc.mil


