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
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> Gerd Wagner, Chair of Internet Technology,
> Brandenburg University of Technology
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