Cellular automata

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Name/Email/AffiliationBrief note
Stephen Wolfram (edit)
(s.wolframATwolfram.com)
Wolfram Research, Inc., IL, USA
Stephen is the creator of Mathematica, and the author of "A New Kind of Science". He is the world's authority on cellular automata.
David Griffeath (edit)
(griffeatATmath.wisc.edu)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
David has done a ton on CA and written really nice software.
Moshe Sipper (edit)
(sipperATcs.bgu.ac.il)
Ben-Gurion University
Prof. Sipper is a recognized researcher in CAs
John Horton Conway (edit)
(email not known)
Princeton University, Royal Society
Professor Conway is a renowned mathematician and a great writer, having authored several mathematical books, some of them aimed to amateurs. One of these is "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays" (Academic Press, 1982). Professor Conway also invented the famous CA called Game of Life.


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