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Ingo Rechenberg (November 20, 1934 - September 25, 2021) was a German researcher and professor in the field of bionics. Rechenberg was a pioneer of the fields of evolutionary computation and
artificial evolution In computational intelligence (CI), an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a subset of evolutionary computation, a generic population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm. An EA uses mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reprod ...
. In the 1960s and 1970s he invented a highly influential set of optimization methods known as
evolution strategies In computer science, an evolution strategy (ES) is an optimization technique based on ideas of evolution. It belongs to the general class of evolutionary computation or artificial evolution methodologies. History The 'evolution strategy' optimiza ...
(from German ''Evolutionsstrategie''). His group successfully applied the new algorithms to challenging problems such as
aerodynamic Aerodynamics, from grc, ἀήρ ''aero'' (air) + grc, δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dyn ...
wing design. These were the first serious technical applications of
artificial evolution In computational intelligence (CI), an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a subset of evolutionary computation, a generic population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm. An EA uses mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reprod ...
, an important subset of the still growing field of bionics. Rechenberg was born in
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. He was educated at the Technical University of Berlin and at the
University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
. Since 1972 he was a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin, where he headed 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
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(US, 2002). In 1954, Rechenberg also became world champion in the field of model aeroplanes.Ingo Rechenber
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Rechenberg's Homepage
The
Moroccan flic-flac spider ''Cebrennus rechenbergi'', also known as the Moroccan flic-flac spider and cartwheeling spider, is a species of huntsman spider indigenous to the sand dunes of the Erg Chebbi desert in Morocco. If provoked or threatened it can escape by doublin ...
, ''Cebrennus rechenbergi'', was named in his honor, as he first collected specimens in the Moroccan desert.


Selected 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'
Bionic's Lab in Berlin
(in German) and i


Notes

1934 births Living people German computer scientists Scientists from Berlin Technical University of Berlin alumni Technical University of Berlin faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{Germany-academic-bio-stub