Christopher Langton
Christopher Langton (* 1949) is a theoretical biologist and a co-founder of the Artificial Life research discipline , a term he introduced in the late 1980s.
Langton was on the Complex Systems Research Group in the Theoretical Department of Los Alamos National Laboratory and is on the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute . In 1987 Langton hosted the first international conference on Artificial Life at the Los Alamos Lab.
He coined Langton's ant , a simple cellular automaton and an example of artificial life. The Langton loops represent another simulation of his . Langton's lambda measure is a dimensionless quantity that records the complexity in an evolutionary system . Most systems of interest tend to converge to a certain value of lambda .
literature
- Steven Levy : KL - Artificial Life from the Computer. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-26477-3 .
- Roger Lewin: The Complexity Theory. Science after chaos research. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-455-08537-7 .
Web links
- Edge of Chaos - Explanation of Langton's Lambda
- Christopher Langton: What is Artificial Live? ( Memento of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langton, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langton, Christopher G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | theoretical biologist and a co-founder of the research discipline of Artificial Life |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |