John Conway has died

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The British mathematician John Horton Conway (born 26 Dec 1937) has died.
See this Tweet: https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249038195880341505
On Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306

John Conway is maybe known best for his cellular automaton, “Life”, AKA “Conway’s Game of Life”, devised in 1970:

Here’s an implementation for the Commodore PET, devised on the occasion: Commodore PET 2001

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P.S.: I hereby declare 11 April to be LIFE Day.

(Corrected for accurate date, yesterday.)

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Here’s a long read about Conway:

In 1993 possibly with a Sun workstation:
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And here with a PDP:

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From this piece:

Some videos:

And a must-see Life pattern:

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3 posts were split to a new topic: (Conways’) Life on 6502

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Hackaday has a dedicated page on the occasion of the passing of John Conway,

and a special page listing various Game of Life projects,

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