Need some help/advice - Japanese Software Devs

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In the field of artificial life,  one of the classic tools is a system called Tierra, which was originally created by Dr Thomas Ray.  Information on it can be found at the following:

main home page: http://life.ou.edu/tierra/
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_%28computer_simulation%29

One of the first ports of Tierra ever done from SunOS was done for the Amiga.  Much of the work for the network version was done in Japan at the ATR/HIP Labs (HIP has since closed) in Kyoto using the Amiga in addition to the Sun workstations of the time.  A page on the Amiga port can be found on Aminet at :

http://aminet.net/package/misc/sci/tierraAmiga

There is a great deal of literature on the Tierra system available.

media coverage
world         : http://life.ou.edu/pubs/news/
United States : http://life.ou.edu/pubs/news/node1.html
Japan         : http://life.ou.edu/pubs/news/node4.html

There is a chapter on Tierra on the book "Artificial Life" by Steven Levy, who also wrote "Hackers"

There is a NY Times article from November 25, 1997 on the first page of the science section which discusses an incident involving the Amiga developer who went on to do a great deal of development on the network version of Tierra as well as on advanced versions of its analysis tools