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Christopher Langton
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Christopher Langton

American computer scientist
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    …impetus of American computer scientist Christopher Langton, who named the field and in 1987 organized the first International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, or Artificial Life 1, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Langton characterized artificial life as “locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger…

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