Thanks for letting us know. In 1971 I programmed a PDP-8 (with 4K 12-bit words of memory, the PDP-8 could add two 12-bit integers in 3 microseconds) to run Conway's Game of Life and display it on a small CRT screen. Friends and I would get stoned and go to the lab to watch it.
In 1992 I saw Conway deliver the keynote speech at the IEEE Visualization conference. Keynote speakers usually wear suits, but Conway wore a t-shirt and gym shorts. There was a moment of confusion about where to attach the microphone to his clothes. On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, [email protected] wrote:
https://planetprinceton.com/2020/04/13/covid-19-kills-princeton-mathematician-game-of-life-inventor-john-horton-conway/ Quote Renowned mathematician and Princeton University professor John Horton Conway died April 11 as a result of complications from the coronavirus. He was 82. Quote Conway, a familiar face in downtown Princeton who was a regular at Small World Coffee, made contributions to many areas of mathematics, including game theory, but was most well known for the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world Quote John Horton Conway is a cross between Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí. For many years, he worried that his obsession with playing silly games was ruining his career – until he realised that it could lead to extraordinary discoveries. Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink
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