Mathematicians, professors, and others reflect on Game of Life, a simulation game devised in 1970, and its lasting influence on the field of cellular automata (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)

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Siobhan Roberts / New York Times:
Mathematicians, professors, and others reflect on Game of Life, a simulation game devised in 1970, and its lasting influence on the field of cellular automata  —  Fifty years on, the mathematician's best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.”

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