RIP John Conway

[Ricky C]

From the SVFIG mailing list...

On 8 April 2020, Conway, who had been struggling with health problems for years, developed a fever from COVID-19. On 11 April 2020, Conway died at age 82. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway There's a tribute on xkcd ... https://xkcd.com/2293/ The Game of Life has been a popular topic in the Forth community: http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V18N1.pdf http://www.forth.org/svfig/kk/05-2006.html

Sorry to see him go.

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[Mike Coon]

In article <067887a4-c514-4c0b-9153-3a590a34e41a@googlegroups.com>,
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com says...

From the SVFIG mailing list...

On 8 April 2020, Conway, who had been struggling with health problems
for years, developed a fever from COVID-19. On 11 April 2020, Conway
died at age 82. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
There's a tribute on xkcd ... https://xkcd.com/2293/ The Game of Life
has been a popular topic in the Forth community:
http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V18N1.pdf http://www.forth.org/svfig/kk/05-
2006.html

Sorry to see him go.

Seconded; I had not heard that news. I must knuckle down and read the
second half of "Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway"
by Siobhan Roberts. (Priced at $30 according to the dust jacket.)

I programmed his Game of Life as an exercise, partly in Assembler, for
my Psion pocket computer decades ago.

Mike.

 

[piglet]

On 14/04/2020 8:59 am, Mike Coon wrote:

In article <067887a4-c514-4c0b-9153-3a590a34e41a@googlegroups.com>,
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com says...

From the SVFIG mailing list...

On 8 April 2020, Conway, who had been struggling with health problems
for years, developed a fever from COVID-19. On 11 April 2020, Conway
died at age 82. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
There's a tribute on xkcd ... https://xkcd.com/2293/ The Game of Life
has been a popular topic in the Forth community:
http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V18N1.pdf http://www.forth.org/svfig/kk/05-
2006.html

Sorry to see him go.

Seconded; I had not heard that news. I must knuckle down and read the
second half of "Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway"
by Siobhan Roberts. (Priced at $30 according to the dust jacket.)

I programmed his Game of Life as an exercise, partly in Assembler, for
my Psion pocket computer decades ago.

Mike.

Thanks for letting me know. I vividly remember having dinner with him
circa 1975 while I was still a teenager. It was a life changing
experience. He taught me his HP-65 calculator and a few years later I
was wealthy enough to buy my own HP-67 which I still use almost daily.

piglet

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:59:19 +0100, Mike Coon
<gravity@mjcoon.plus.com> wrote:

In article <067887a4-c514-4c0b-9153-3a590a34e41a@googlegroups.com>,
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com says...

From the SVFIG mailing list...

On 8 April 2020, Conway, who had been struggling with health problems
for years, developed a fever from COVID-19. On 11 April 2020, Conway
died at age 82. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
There's a tribute on xkcd ... https://xkcd.com/2293/ The Game of Life
has been a popular topic in the Forth community:
http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V18N1.pdf http://www.forth.org/svfig/kk/05-
2006.html

Sorry to see him go.

Seconded; I had not heard that news. I must knuckle down and read the
second half of "Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway"
by Siobhan Roberts. (Priced at $30 according to the dust jacket.)

I programmed his Game of Life as an exercise, partly in Assembler, for
my Psion pocket computer decades ago.

Mike.

I designed a primitive color graphics generator ca 1970, for a PDP-11.
The first thing we did with it was program Life in assembler.

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