We lost a dear friend and colleague on December 28, 2000, when Professor Michael Conrad passed away after a battle with lymphoma. Michael was truly a giant in the field of evolutionary computation, a pioneer who endeavored to push the limits of our knowledge of biological information processing in all its forms. His contributions to evolutionary computation include the first known simulation of...

1998 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture NFAIS Annual Conference February 24, 1998 Philadelphia, PA Kent Smith, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine © 1998 Kent Smith Good morning and thank you for the honor to present this lecture in the memory of Miles Conrad, first president of NFAIS and one of its original founders. The lecture series is a fitting memory to a man of vision, strength, dev...