Santa Fe Institute publishes interactive history of agent-based modeling, from Game of Life to pandemics
S_Conradi · x · 2026-10-30
The Santa Fe Institute released 'Agent-Based Modeling: Worlds Within Worlds,' an interactive story tracing ABM's rise in the social sciences: from the Manhattan Project and Conway's Game of Life, through canonical models like the Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market and Sugarscape, to applications in public health, archaeology, and macroeconomics. It opens with the late-1980s founding days in a former Santa Fe convent and includes runnable interactive models.
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