{"id":853,"date":"2018-12-21T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alife.org\/?p=853"},"modified":"2021-06-06T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T05:26:15","slug":"2018-isal-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alife.org\/2018-isal-awards-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 ISAL Awards: Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\n International Society for Artificial Life is pleased to confirm the \nwinners of the 2018 ISAL Awards. The awards were presented to recipients\n in July, during the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life<\/a> in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an open nomination process open to all members of the broader \nArtificial Life community, three committees reviewed the nominations and\n made recommendations that were then approved by the ISAL board of \ndirectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awards and 2018 winners are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 ISAL Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of Artificial Life<\/strong>
For\n an individual who has made profound contributions to the field of \nArtificial Life, influencing the work of many others and helping to \nshape the current state of the field.<\/em>
\nWinner:
Prof. Steen Rasmussen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 ISAL Award for Distinguished Young Investigator in the field of Artificial Life<\/strong>
For\n an individual early in their career (pre-tenure) that has already made \nimportant contributions to the field of Artificial Life. <\/em>
\nWinner:
Dr. Sebastian Risi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 ISAL Award for Outstanding Paper of the Decade 2003 – 2013<\/strong>
For\n an influential paper published in any venue from five to fifteen years \nago (2003 through 2013) that has had a profound impact on the field of \nArtificial Life.<\/em>
\nWinner:
Swarm Chemistry<\/a>
\nHiroki Sayama
\nArtificial Life, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2009), pp. 105-114<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 ISAL Award for Outstanding Paper of 2017 in the field of Artificial Life<\/strong>
For\n a paper published in any venue during the previous calendar year (2017)\n that shows significant potential to advance the field of Artificial \nLife. <\/em>
\nWinner:
Droplets As Liquid Robots<\/a>
\nJitka \u010cejkov\u00e1, Taisuke Banno, Martin M. Hanczyc and Franti\u0161ek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek
\nArtificial Life, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2017), pp. 528-549<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 ISAL Award for Education and Outreach using Artificial Life<\/strong>
For\n the authors of an outstanding project that either teaches about \nArtificial Life or uses Artificial Life techniques to teach about \nanother topic, or inspires users to learn more on their own. <\/em>
\nWinner:
Biological Bits<\/a> (by Dr. Alan Dorin<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 ISAL Award for Exceptional Service to the Artificial Life Community<\/strong>
For\n an individual who has provided truly exceptional service to the field \nof Artificial Life, by helping to organize community projects, \ndeveloping resources, or facilitating the administration of ISAL.<\/em>
\nWinner:
Dr. Carlos Gershenson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our sincere thanks to the volunteers who reviewed these nominations and recommended the winners to the ISAL board of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to all the winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Society for Artificial Life is pleased to confirm the winners of the 2018 ISAL Awards. The awards were presented to recipients in July, during the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life in Tokyo. After an open nomination process open to all members of the broader Artificial Life community, three committees reviewed the nominations and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[42],"tags":[44],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}