History of Swarm
Launched in 1994 by Chris Langton at Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico (Contributors: Chris Langton, Roger Burkhart, Nelson Minar, Manor Askenazi, Glen Ropella, Sven Thommesen, Marcus Daniels, Alex Lancaster, Vladimir Jojic )
Objectives
- Create a shared simulation platform for ABM
- Facilitate the development of models
Released in beta in ‘95, 1.0 release in January ‘97, 1.1 with Win95/NT support April ‘98, 2.0 with Java April ‘99