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1 | ISAL AWARD | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Lifetime Achievement Award - to recognize an individual who has made profound contributions to the field of Artificial Life, influencing the work of many others and helping to shape the state of the art. | Winner: Mark Bedau | Winner: Dr. Susan Stepney | Winner: Craig Reynolds | Joint Winners: Prof. Stephanie Forrest and Prof. Wolfgang Banzhaf | Winner: Prof. Takashi Ikegami | Winner: Prof. Randall Beer | Winner: Prof. Christoph Adami | Winner: Prof. Steen Rasmussen | Winner: Prof. Jordan B. Pollack | Winner: Prof. Margaret Boden | Winner: Dr. Inman Harvey | Winner: Dr. Christopher G. Langton | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Distinguished Early-Career Investigator Award - to recognize an individual who is early in their career (typically pre-tenure), but has already made important contributions to the field of Artificial Life. | Winner: Emily Dolson | Winner: Dr. Stefano Nichele | Winner: Dr. Sam Kriegman | Winner: Dr. Lana Sinapayen | Winner: Dr. Jitka Čejková | Winner: Dr. Xabier Barandiaran | Winner: Dr. Arend Hintze | Winner: Dr. Sebastian Risi | Winner: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mouret | Winner: Dr. Jeffrey Clune | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Exceptional Service Award - to recognize an ISAL member who has provided truly exceptional service to the field of Artificial Life by, for example, helping to organize the Artificial Life community, developing valuable resources, or facilitating administration of ISAL. | Winner: Josh Bongard | Winner: Dr. Charles Ofria | Winner: Dr. Lisa Soros | Winner: ISAL Newsletter | Winner: Juniper Lovato and Dr. Laurent Hébert-Dufresne | Winner: Dr. Alexandra Penn | Winner: Dr. Emily Dolson | Winner: Dr. Carlos Gershenson | Winner: Prof. René Doursat | Winner: Dr. Hiroki Sayama | Winner: Prof. Mark Bedau | Winner: Dr. Tim Taylor | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Outstanding Publication of <PREVIOUS YEAR> - to recognize the authors of a publication in any venue during the previous calendar year that shows significant potential to advance the field of Artificial Life. | Winner: Solé R, Kempes CP, Corominas-Murtra B, De Domenico M, Kolchinsky A, Lachmann M, Libby E, Saavedra S, Smith E, Wolpert D. 2024. Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems. Interface Focus 14: 20240010. | Winner: Stanley, K. O., US, NA, D’Ambrosio, D. B., & Gauci, J. (2009). A hypercube-based encoding for evolving large-scale neural networks. Artificial Life, 15(2), 185-212. https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article-abstract/15/2/185/2634/A-Hypercube-Based-Encoding-for-Evolving-Large | Winner: Formalising the Pathways to Life Using Assembly Spaces Marshall, S.M., Moore, D.G., Murray, A.R.G., Walker, S.I., Cronin, L. Entropy. 2022; 24(7):884. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24070884 | Winner: A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines Blackiston, D., Lederer, E., Kriegman, S., Garnier, S., Bongard, J., & Levin, M. Science Robotics, 6(52), 2021, eabf1571. | Winner 1: The surprising creativity of digital evolution: A collection of anecdotes from the evolutionary computation and artificial life research communities. Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley et al. Artificial life 26, no. 2 (2020): 274-306 Winner 2: A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Mochael Levin, Josh Bongard Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 117 no. 4, pp. 1853-1859 | Winner: Lenia: Biology of Artificial Life Bert Wang-Chak Chan Complex Systems, 28(3), 2019 pp. 251–286 | Not awarded this year | Winner: Droplets As Liquid Robots Jitka Čejková, Taisuke Banno, Martin M. Hanczyc and František Štěpánek Artificial Life, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2017), pp. 528-549 | Winner: How Can Evolution Learn? Richard A. Watson and Eörs Szathmáry Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 31, No. 2. (2016), pp. 147-157 | Winner: Robots that can adapt like animals Antoine Cully, Jeff Clune, Danesh Tarapore, Jean-Baptiste Mouret Nature, Vol. 521, No. 7553. (28 May 2015), pp. 503-507 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Outstanding Publication of the Decade <5-15 YEARS AGO> - to recognize the authors of an influential publication in any venue from five to fifteen years ago that has had a profound impact on the field of Artificial Life, as evidenced by follow-up research, citations, or attention brought to the field. | Decade 2010-2020 Winner: Integrated Information Increases with Fitness in the Evolution of Animats, Edlund, J. A., Chaumont, N., Hintze, A., Koch, C., Tononi, G., & Adami, C. (2011) Plos Comp Biol. 7(10): e1002236 | Not awarded | Decade 2008-2018 Winner: Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution through the Artificial Life World of Chromaria Soros, L. B. and Stanley, K. Proceedings of ALIFE 14: The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. | Decade 2007-2017 Winner: Fatty acid chemistry at the oil-water interface: Self-propelled oil droplets Hanczyc, M. M., Toyota, T., Ikegami, T., Packard, N., & Sugawara, T. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129(30), 2007, 9386-9391. | Decade 2006-2016 Winner: Enactive artificial intelligence: Investigating the systemic organization of life and mind Tom Froese and Tom Ziemke Artificial Intelligence, Volume 173, Issues 3–4, 2009, Pages 466-500 | Decade 2005 - 2015 Not awarded this year | Decade 2004 - 2014 Winner: The evolutionary origins of modularity” Jeff Clune, Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Hod Lipson Proc Royal Soc B, 2013 | Decade 2003 - 2013 Winner: Swarm Chemistry Hiroki Sayama Artificial Life, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2009), pp. 105-114 | Decade 2002 - 2012 Winner: Evolving neural networks through augmenting topologies Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 10, No. 2. (2002), pp. 99-127 | Decade 2001 - 2011 Winner: Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, and Hod Lipson Science 314.5802 (2006): 1118-1121 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Education & Outreach Award - to recognize the authors of an outstanding project that either teaches about Artificial Life or uses Artificial Life techniques to teach about another topic, or inspires users to learn more on their own. | Winner: Complexity Explorables (by Dirk Brockman) | Winner: Dr. Mizuki Oka | Winner: Dave Ackley | Winner: Cross Labs | Winner: infectiousmatter.com (by Luis Zaman) | Winner: Scary Beauty / Android Opera (Prof. Takashi Ikegami) | Winner: @ALifePapers (by Lana Sinapayen) | Winner: Biological Bits (by Dr. Alan Dorin) | Winner: Avida-ED (led by Prof. Robert Pennock) | Winner: Ludobots (by Dr. Joshua Bongard) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Outstanding Student Publication Award - to recognize a student or postdoc for a paper or other publication that they published while a student; any researcher who is still a student or within approximately three years of graduation is eligible. This award will be judged by a committee organized by the ISAL student group, ERA (Emerging Researchers In ALife). | Winner: Ferigo, A., Iacca, G., Medvet, E., & Nadizar, G. (2025). Totipotent neural controllers for modular soft robots: Achieving specialization in body–brain co-evolution through Hebbian learning. Neurocomputing, 614, 128811. | Winner: Severino, G. J., Laborde, Z., & Barwich, A. S. (2023). The Degeneracy of Control Architectures in Cell Lineages: Implications for Tissue Homeostasis. In ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference. MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal2023/35/23/116904 | Winner: Keep Your Frenemies Closer: Bacteriophage That Benefit Their Hosts Evolve to be More Temperate Cameron A., Dorchen S., Doore S. and Vostinar Anya Proceedings of ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life Honorable Mention: Artificial life using a book and bookmarker Utimula, K | Winner: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Evolution in Fluctuating Environments Lalejini, A., Ferguson, A. J., Grant, N. A., & Ofria, C. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 2021, 715381. | Winner: Madhavun Candadai (co-authored with Eduardo Izquierdo) Sources of predictive information in dynamical neural networks Scientific Reports 10, 16901 (2020) | Winner: Anya E. Vostinar (co-authored with Charles Ofria) Spatial Structure Can Decrease Symbiotic Cooperation Artificial Life 2019 24:4, 229-249 | Winner: Emily Dolson, Alexander Lalejini, Steven Jorgensen and Charles Ofria Quantifying the tape of life: Ancestry-based metrics provide insights and intuition about evolutionary dynamics Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2018, T. Ikegami et al. (eds.), MIT Press, 2018. | Winner: Referential communication as a collective property of a brain-body-environment-body-brain system: A minimal cognitive model. Jorge Campos and Tom Froese Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, IEEE Press, pp. 863-870 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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