ISAL Award Winners

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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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