Professor Walker Land Jr. performed twenty years of classified military research for IBM, none of which can be discussed here. He retired from IBM in 1990 and joined Binghamton University for 26 years, retiring a second time at the rank of Research Professor in 2014. He is known as one of the prime developers of the GRNN oracle ensemble method for learning classifier systems. He also made contributions to the original TIROS satellite system, the forerunner of the current weather satellite system, as well as made original contributions to the 200 and 500 series Saturn/Apollo lunar flyby and landing programs. Professor J David Schaffer published many years on genetic algorithms. He retired as Research Fellow after 25 years with Philips Research. He has a citation index of 12000 (Google Scholar), holds 43 issued US patents and was designated a Pioneer in Evolutionary Computation by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2012. He serves on the editorial board of the Evolutionary Computation Journal, and on the steering committee for the bi-annual conference series Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO).