A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician
This August, I will be speaking about my Virtual Bumblebees. Here’s the abstract: Based on Langton’s Ant, this talk briefly describes a simple simulation environment for quasisocial behavior. The world is a sparse rectangular grid of cells. Each cell may be empty, have a red dot, or a blue dot.
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During the 1980s, some researchers abandoned top-down artificial intelligence in favor of a bottom-up approach. One of these bottom up approaches became the field of artificial life. In 1992 or 1993, I checked out Artificial Life by Steven Levy from the Lane Public Library. In his book, Levy describes much
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