He has a Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langton>article, a
Wikiquote <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Langton> page, and a/an
NNDB<http://www.nndb.com/people/787/000080547/>page. The latter says
he started the Swarm development group, which is now
apparently the Center for the Study of Complex Systems (their web design
looks rather similar to that of the Institute, and none of the three
sections of their 'People' page
<http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cscs/people>mention Langton, although they
do mention John Holland). Other pages about
Chris Langtons seem to refer to other people, including an athlete.

Murray Gellmann is alive and presumably well, and I am glad to have met him.

Incidentally, if we are talking about famous people in complexity, the link
and quote (a redux of a redux of a quote from Jonathan Swift about fractal
fleas) that Stephen Guerin posted earlier is a good read; although Lewis
Fry Richardson is not part of the circles we are talking about, having died
in 1953, he appears to have been the one to originate the coastline length
/ fractal dimension thing, while researching whether countries with longer
borders were more likely to be involved in wars with their neighbors.

-Arlo James Barnes
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