Abstract

Mention to computer scientists, gliders, glider guns, birth and death rules and they smile remembering their efforts to study societal life. October marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Conway's game of Life in Martin Garner's Mathematical Games column [1], For the lay person with no knowledge of Life, it's difficulty to imagine how popular a single person game with only a single move (i.e. setting the initial conditions) could be.

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