James Sakoda (April 21, 1916 – June 12, 2005) was a Japanese-American psychologist who worked on computational modeling.
[3] During World War II, Sakoda spent time incarcerated at the Tule Lake and Minidoka internment camps.
[3] He documented the experiences of Japanese Americans in internment camps, using what may be the first "agent-based model.
[4] In 1962, he joined the sociology department at Brown University and became the director of the Social Science Computer Laboratory.
[4] Sakoda was a well-known figure in the field of origami and published two books on the subject.