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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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NoLand
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P.S.: I hereby declare 11 April to be LIFE Day.
(Corrected for accurate date, yesterday.)
EdS
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Here’s a long read about Conway:
In 1993 possibly with a Sun workstation:
And here with a PDP:
From this piece:
Some videos:
And a must-see Life pattern:
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EdS
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NoLand
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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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