The nominations for the 2024 ISAL awards are now open! What’s that you say, already?? Yes! The board has decided to have the nomination form open nearly continuously (with a small break to switch over years) to make it easy for you to send in nominations whenever you come across a cool project, publication, or person related to artificial life.
Remember that nominations are welcome from everyone in the community, whether you are brand new or have been an alifer since the first conference. Nominator name and email are collected but not conveyed to the award committee.
In case you’ve forgotten, here are the award categories:
- Lifetime Achievement Award: This award is 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 current state of the field.
- Distinguished Early-Career Investigator Award: This award is to recognize an individual who is early in their career (typically within a decade of earning a Ph.D.), but has made important contributions to the field of Artificial Life.
- Exceptional Service Award: This award is 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.
- Outstanding Publication of 2023 Award: This award will go to the authors of a publication in any venue during the previous calendar year (2023) that shows significant potential to advance the field of Artificial Life.
- Outstanding Publication of the Decade (2009-2019) Award: This award will go to the authors of an influential publication in any venue from five to fifteen years ago (2009 through 2019) 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.
- Education and Outreach Award: This award will go to the authors of an outstanding project that either teaches about Artificial Life, uses Artificial Life techniques to teach about another topic, or inspires users to learn more on their own.
- Outstanding Student Publication Award: This award will go to 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).
Please submit nominations for any and all people and projects that you feel are deserving, and do it right away so that you don’t forget!