History of Swarm
Started 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, Irene Lee)
Objective: create a common simulation platform for ABM
Relased in beta in 1995, 1.0 release in January 1997, 1.1 with Win95/NT support : April 1998
Next steps: Windows 95/NT version, (Rhapsody?), other GUI implementations, client-server approach, paralellization