- Ingo Rechenberg
Ingo Rechenberg (born
January 20 1934 inBerlin ) is a German computer scientist and professor. Rechenberg is a pioneer of the fields ofevolutionary computation andartificial evolution . In the 1960s and 1970s he invented a highly influential set of optimization methods known asevolution strategies (from German "Evolutionsstrategie"). His group successfully applied the new algorithms to challenging problems such asaerodynamic wing design. These were the first serious technical applications ofartificial evolution , an important subset of the still growing field ofbionics .Rechenberg was educated at the
Technical University of Berlin and at theUniversity of Cambridge . Since 1972 he has been a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin, where he is heading the Department of Bionics and Evolution Techniques.His awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Programming Society (US, 1995) and the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award of the IEEE Neural Networks Society (US, 2002). In 1954, Rechenberg also became world champion in the field of
model airplanes . Fact|date=June 2007Selected bibliography
* Ingo Rechenberg (1971): Evolutionsstrategie - Optimierung technischer Systeme nach Prinzipien der biologischen Evolution (PhD thesis). Reprinted by Fromman-Holzboog (1973).
* Ingo Rechenberg: Evolutionsstrategie '94. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 1994.External links
*Rechenberg's [http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/ Bionic's Lab in Berlin] (in German) and in [http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/institut/xstart.htm English]
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