 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 aeroplanes.The Moroccan flic-flac spider, "Cebrennus rechenbergi", was named in his honor, as he first collected specimens in the Moroccan desert.