Christopher G. Langton

CHRISTOPHER LANGTON has worked as a scientist with the Complex Systems Group of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. Langton organized the first Artificial Life workshop at Los Alamos in 1987 and has been the principle organizer of the succeeding workshops on Artificial Life, held in 1990 and 1992. Langton's research interests include computational architectures for Artificial Life studies, formal measures of complexity, cellular automata, the role of ecologies in evolution, and the origin of life.