Russell K. Standish is a

computational scientist A computational scientist is a person skilled in scientific computing. This person is usually a scientist, a statistician, an applied mathematician, or an engineer who applies high-performance computing and sometimes cloud computing in different w ...

based in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. He was the founding director of

UNSW The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

'
High Performance Computing Support Unit
from 1997-2005. In 2005 he established a computational science consultancy calle
High Performance Coders
Since 2002, he has held an adjunct associate professorship with UNSW'
School of Mathematics and Statistics
He grew up in Western Australia with 2 younger brothers, Mark (middle child) and Tony (youngest). He is married to Kim Crichton with 1 child, named Hal.

Contributions

Ensemble theories of everything

In 2006, Standish published a boo

that takes a look at ensemble theories of everything, a subject reinvigorated by Max Tegmark in 1997. He has also been an extensive contributor to th
Everything List
an informal discussion group on these ideas, and has published several papers in the area.

Complex systems, evolutionary systems, artificial life

Standish has been a longtime contributor to the study of

evolutionary systems Evolutionary systems are a type of system, which reproduce with mutation whereby the most fit elements survive, and the less fit die down. One of the developers of the evolutionary systems thinking is Béla H. Bánáthy. Evolutionary systems are ch ...

, an important subcategory of

Complex Systems A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication s ...

research. He often uses Artificial Life models to explore evolutionary behaviour. *In 1998, he chaire
Complex Systems '98
one of a series of conferences now known as the Asia Pacific Complex Systems conference. *In 2002, he chaire
ALife VIII
The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. *He is the lead developer o
EcoLab
an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

C++ based agent based modelling framework, as well as the

Minsky Minsky (Belarusian: Мінскі; Russian: Минский) is a family name originating in Eastern Europe. People *Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), American economist *Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), American cognitive scientist in the field of Ar ...

visual simulation system.

Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems

Standish's PhD involved research into nonequilibrium

statistical mechanics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities. It does not assume or postulate any natural laws, but explains the macroscopic be ...

External links

Home pageEcoLab
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