Dr. Goldberg is known as an engaging and entertaining lecturer who conveys complex ideas simply, yet powerfully. Dr. Goldberg is available to address both upper management and technical staff on subjects ranging from the strategic implications of genetic and evolutionary computation to the nuts and bolts of making GAs solve hard problems, quickly, reliably, and accurately.

Recently 27 engineers and computer scientists assembled in a conference room at a major manufacturer in Central Illinois for a customized one-day short course given by Dr. Goldberg and an assistant aimed at getting those engineers up to speed on the latest in genetic algorithms technology and applications. A number of those engineers are now using GAs to optimize engineering systems.

Not long ago, a team of three engineers from a engineering software in the field of fluid flow were trained by Dr. Goldberg in a week-long private training session aimed at getting GA techniques incorporated into this company's suite of analysis software. As a result of that session, GAs are now running in this software package and are a feature component of the design package.

Genetic algorithms are complex systems, and few people can diagnose and solve GA-related problems like Dr. Goldberg. From coding selection, operator design, to parameter tuning and operator integration, Dr. Goldberg can quickly answer questions of both a general and detailed nature that would otherwise take many hours of painstaking reading and research to answer. Recently, Dr. Goldberg worked with a software division of a major Japanese electronics firm to help create a large-scale GA-based crew scheduling application.