The International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation has created the honorary membership categories of Fellow (for persons under 45 years of age) and Senior Fellow (for older persons) to recognize members of the society who have made important and sustained contributions to the field and the society. The initial group of Fellows and Senior Fellows were elected by secret ballot of all society members in spring, 2003.

Each year, two additional Fellows and two additional Senior Fellows will be elected by the society's membership. Four persons will be nominated in each category, half by the current Fellows and Senior Fellows and half by the Executive Board of the ISGEC.

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Fellows

Thomas Bäck Head Natural Computing Group Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)	email: http://natcomp.liacs.nl
Erick Cantú-Paz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories	email:  www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/~cantupaz
Kalyanmoy Deb Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	email: http:www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb.htm
William Langdon University College, London	email: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon
Una-May O’Reilly Massachusetts Institute of Technology	email: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/unamay/
Riccardo Poli University of Essex	email: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/rpoli/
Lee Spector Hampshire College	email: http://hampshire.edu/lspector/

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Senior Fellows

Wolfgang Banzhaf Memorial University of Newfoundland	email: http://ls11www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de /people/banzhaf
Lawrence "David" Davis Nutech Solutions, Inc	email: http://www.nutechsolutions.com/about_us/ people.asp#1
Kenneth De Jong George Mason University	email: http://cs.gmu.edu/~kdejong/dejong_bio.html
Stephanie Forrest University of New Mexico	email: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest
David E. Goldberg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	email: http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu
Erik D. Goodman Michigan State University and Red Cedar Technology, Inc	email: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~goodman
John Holland University of Michigan and Santa Fe Institute	email: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/faculty-bio/? uniquename=jholland
John Koza Stanford University	email: http://www.smi.stanford.edu/people/koza
Ingo Rechenberg Technical University of Berlin	email: http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/user/rechenb/ rechenb.html
Marc Schoenauer INRIA, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, France	email: http://www.lri.fr/~marc/
Hans-Paul Schwefel University of Dortmund	email: http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/people/ schwefel/meE.html
Darrell Whitley Colorado State University	email: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~whitley