As per my previous message, if John is seeing this he can probably remember the exact year, having both been at Rand. My guess is mid-1970s. John also told me the implementation language, but I cannot recall which one it was, though I doubt it was an OOP language. Claudio on 11/28/11 5:19 PM, Gerd Wagner at [log in to unmask] wrote: >> Although Schelling's 1976 model of segregation is often cited as an >> early individual-based social simulation, he did not use a computer at >> the time, but rather "simulated" it manually using a checkerboard. >> >> Does anyone know when it was first implemented as a computer simulation? > > I just happen to know when it was first implemented as a > browser-based (JavaScript) simulation program: in 2009, > see http://portal.simulario.de/public/1/ > > -Gerd > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Gerd Wagner, Chair of Internet Technology, > Brandenburg University of Technology