From the SVFIG mailing list...
On 8 April 2020, Conway, who had been struggling with health problems for y ears, developed a fever from COVID-19. On 11 April 2020, Conway died at age 82.
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
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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