Complex Systems Theory - Stephen Wolfram, presented by Nik Clarkson

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/complex-systems-theory.pdf

Cellular Automata apply simple rules to simulate complex systems. Stephen Wolfram has invented "A New Kind of Science" to study these machines, and determine how we can use them to understand the natural world.

Nik Clarkson will guide us through one of Wolfram's early papers on the subject. He takes a fresh approach to the problem, in which he first tries to achieve the same results as nature, and then tries to walk back to an understanding of the governing laws.