What is Ingo Rechenberg?
''Ingo Rechenberg''' ( [[January 20]] [[1934]] in [[Berlin]] - September 25, 2021) is a [[Germany|German]] [[computer science|computer scientist]] and professor. Rechenberg is a pioneer of the fields of [[evolutionary computation]] and [[artificial evolution]]. In the 1960s and 1970s, he invented a highly influential set of optimization methods known as [[evolution strategies]] (from German ''Evolutionsstrategie''). His group successfully applied the new [[Algorithm|algorithms]] to challenging problems such as [[aerodynamic]] wing design. These were the first serious technical applications of [[artificial evolution]], an important subset of the still growing field of [[bionics]]. Rechenberg was educated at the [[Technical University of Berlin]] and at the [[University of Cambridge]]. Since 1972, he was a full professor at the Technical University of [[Berlin]], in 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]]. <ref>Ingo Rechenberg [http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/institut/xn2rechenb.html Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Rechenberg's Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422173008/http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/institut/xn2rechenb.html |date=2018-04-22 }}</ref> == 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. ==References== {{reflist|refs= }} == Other websites == *Rechenberg's [http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/ Bionic's Lab in Berlin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425010001/http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/institut/xstart.htm |date=2018-04-25 }} (in German) and in [http://