The International Society for Artificial Life is pleased to confirm the winners of the 2024 ISAL Awards. The awards were presented to recipients during the 2024 Conference on Artificial Life in Copenhagen, Denmark.
After a nomination process open to all members of the broader Artificial Life community, sub-committees reviewed the nominations and made recommendations that were then approved by the ISAL board of directors.
The awards and 2024 winners are:
| ISAL Award for Lifetime Achievement | 2024 | Dr. Susan Stepney |
| ISAL Award for Distinguished Early-Career Investigator | 2024 | Dr. Stefano Nichele |
| ISAL Award for Education and Outreach | 2024 | Dr. Mizuki Oka |
| ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of the Decade 2009 – 2019 | 2024 | 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 |
| ISAL Award for Exceptional Service | 2024 | Dr. Charles Ofria |
| ISAL Award for Outstanding Student Publication | 2024 | 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 |
| ISAL Award for Outstanding Reviewer, Artificial Life journal | 2024 | Dr. Guillaume Beslon |
| ISAL Award for Outstanding Reviewer, Artificial Life journal | 2024 | Dr. Juan-Carlos Letelier |
| ISAL Award for Special Service | 2024 | Clifford Bohm |
Congratulations to all the winners!
For a list of past awards, see this page.