Preface

1. Obtaining Swarm

1.1. The Swarm Hive

The Swarm Project archive at http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm is the place to obtain both new software releases and documentation for Swarm.

We welcome comments about Swarm and it's documentation.

You may send comments to the Swarm team:

Swarm Project

Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe NM 87501

swarm@santafe.edu

You can also mail comments to the swarm-support@santafe.edu mailing list. See the Swarm support archive for instructions on how to join this list.

1.2. Acknowledgments

The Swarm project was started by Chris Langton, formerly of the Santa Fe Institute now at the Swarm Corporation, New Mexico. Swarm is being designed and programmed by Chris Langton (SFI), Roger Burkhart (John Deere), Irene Lee (SFI), Marcus Daniels (SFI) and Alex Lancaster (SFI). Much of the development of Swarm was done by Nelson Minar, who is now at the MIT Media Lab, and Manor Askenazi and Glen Ropella, formerly of the SFI. The new random library was written by Sven Thommesen and graciously contributed. Eric Carr and JJ Merelo have been patient Swarm users and developers. Howard Gutowitz and David Hiebeler have participated in the design process. (David is also the implementor of the original Swarm prototype.) And, many thanks to Simon Fraser, Swarm graphic designer extraordinaire. Finally, many thanks go out to the Swarm user community, particularly those who have stuck with us from the beginning.

See the Swarm Project archive for more information about Swarm.