About Joshua Thorp

Joshua Thorp has a degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Mathematics from the Cornell University School of Engineering and six years of practical experience in the field of complexity science and agent based modeling.

Since 2002 Joshua has been an independent consultant focusing on the agent based modeling domain and interactive visualization work in Java. 2003 through 2005 found Joshua contracting to Los Alamos National Laboratory modeling interactions networks of employees and divisions at LANL. In the fall of 2005 Joshua began work with Lee D. Hoffer, Ph.D., MPE Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, modeling the street market of heroin along with RedfishGroup, based on ethnographic work completed by Dr. Hoffer.

Between 2000 and 2002 he worked for BiosGroup. In addition to an internal QA and reusable code repository effort, Joshua’s project work consisted of team writing an exploration and production business unit model of a large energy company in Houston. Subsequently Joshua worked on a project to manage distributed storage of data on a network with a data storage software company.

Joshua has had an evolving interest in computing. In high school Joshua participated in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge sponsored by Los Alamos Laboratory with a project that focused on artificial life and genetic algorithms inspired by the work of Christopher Langton at the Santa Fe Institute. From that time on, he has been interested in distributed systems of interacting agents and complex adaptive systems. Growing up on a small family farm near Cerrillos, N.M., Joshua has always been fascinated by the intersection of complex adaptive systems studies and the sustainable agriculture movement.

email: joshua (at) stigmergic.net