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Christopher Langton
Christopher Gale Langton (born 1948 or 1949) is an American biologist and one of the pioneers in the field of bionics. He invented the term simulation in the 1980s, proposed Langton's ant (an example of a cellular automaton) in 1986, and organized the first "International Conference on Synthetic Simulation of Living Systems" at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1987.
- Category
- Scientists
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1948
- Wikidata
- Q9187279
