Conway's Game of Life
Juego de la vida de Conway
- Date
- 1970 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Horton Conway
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Conway designed this cellular automaton with a minimal set of simple rules that nonetheless generates complex, unpredictable patterns, some capable of growing forever. Martin Gardner introduced it in his October 1970 Scientific American column, and it became a classic of recreational computing.
What it led to
- Study of universal computation in cellular automata
- Recreational programming culture
Built on
- Von Neumann's cellular automata