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Christopher Langton, a Common card
Christopher Gale Langton is an American computer scientist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 20
- Power
- 71
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,000
Power 71 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Christopher Langton quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Christopher Langton card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He left SFI in the late 1990s, and abandoned his work on artificial life, ______ no research since that time.
Answer
publishing. He left SFI in the late 1990s, and abandoned his work on artificial life, publishing no research since that time. From the Christopher Langton article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kevin A. Ford. Kevin A. Ford 55 · Christopher Langton 51 · Brittle–ductile transition zone 48 · Hexapod 45 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He coined the term in the late 1980s when he organized the first "Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems" at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1987.
- Following his time at Los Alamos, Langton joined the Santa Fe Institute, to continue his research on artificial life.
- He left SFI in the late 1990s, and abandoned his work on artificial life, publishing no research since that time.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Christopher Langton article was read about 6,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 20: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Christopher Langton
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Christopher Langton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cary Herz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
