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4 unusual facts about Conway's Game of Life


Conway's Game of Life

Acclaimed game developer Jonathan Blow notes the game of life as a big influence on his design philosophy.

The Native Instruments modular sound generation/processing software package Reaktor features a drum machine with an integrated sequencer which implements Life.

Cromemco Dazzler

The cover of the June 1976 issue of Byte Magazine shows a Dazzler image from Conway's Game of Life, and credits Ed Hall as author of the Life software for the Dazzler.

M. A. Foster

The "game" from the title of The Gameplayers of Zan is based on cellular automata, a more intricate version of Conway's Game of Life.


2012 North Belfast riots

In another incident during a different parade, a Shankill based Loyalist band "The Young Conway Volunteers" was filmed by a Sinn Féin activist playing the "The Famine Song" outside St Patricks Catholic Church in Ardoyne.

Anne C. Conway

President George H. W. Bush appointed Conway to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 24, 1991, to the seat vacated by George C. Carr.

Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire

In 1851 the New Hampshire state legislature authorized the governor and council to appoint a land commissioner to sell the public lands, and James Willey of Conway was appointed to that office.

Benjamin Champney

Most art historians consider him the founder of the "North Conway Colony" of painters who came to North Conway, New Hampshire and the surrounding area during the second half of the 19th century.

C.P. Quattlebaum House

Its owner, Cephas Perry Quattlebaum, served as Conway's first mayor and his office is located nearby, the C.P. Quattlebaum Office.

C.P. Quattlebaum Office

Its owner, Cephas Perry Quattlebaum, served as Conway's first mayor and his residence is located nearby, the C.P. Quattlebaum House.

Chi Alpha Campus Ministries

Kris Allen, the 2009 American Idol winner, was a member of Chi Alpha when he was a student at University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas.

Cleveland, Arkansas

Public education for elementary and secondary school students is provided by the Wonderview School District of north Conway County, which leads students to graduate from Wonderview High School in St. Vincent, Arkansas, seven miles south of Cleveland on Highway 95.

Conway County, Arkansas

Conway County was formed on October 20, 1825 from a portion of Pulaski County and named for Henry Wharton Conway who was the territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress.

Conway Publishing

Conway produced the books to accompany James May's Toy Stories and the Dan Snow presented 'Empire of the Seas', both aired on the BBC.

Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway have broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modeling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.

Conway Residential Historic District

Four properties in this historic district were previously listed: the Beaty-Little House, the Burroughs School, the J.W. Holliday Jr. House, and the W. H. Winborne House.

Custer Channel Wing Corporation

It was reported that Taylorcraft Inc of Conway, Pennsylvania were the first manufacturers to be licensed for the production of both military and private aircraft using the Channel Wing principles.

Cyclone Ului

Airlie Beach/Cannonvale/Cannonvalley sustained relatively minor damage due to them being sheltered from most of the damaging winds by the conway ranges which the Conway National Park is part of.

Dan Milner

In 2009, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, an arm of the Smithsonian Institution, America's national museum, released "Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea," which features many of Irish America's foremost musicians and singers, including John Doyle, Joanie Madden, Susan McKeown, Mick Moloney, Brian Conway, Gabriel Donohue and Robbie O'Connell.

Doak S. Campbell

In 1916, Doak S. Campbell began teaching chemistry at Central College, in Conway, Arkansas.

Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway

He was the son and heir of Sir John Conway of Arrow, and his wife Ellen or Eleanor, daughter of Sir Fulke Greville of Beauchamp's Court, Warwickshire.

Falk Hentschel

In 2010 Falk played the role of drug addict Richard Conway on TNT’s The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick.

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

George Mason-Villiers, 2nd Earl Grandison

Lord Grandison married Lady Gertrude, daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, in 1772.

GridWorld

Some common examples of student created extensions are Warden organisms and SimCity-like structures, in which objects of certain types create objects of other types based on their neighbors (much like Conway's Game of Life).

Gwilym Davies

Gwilym Ednyfed Hudson Davies (born 1929), Welsh Labour Party then SDP politician, Member of Parliament for Conway 1966–1970, Caerphilly 1979–1983

Joanne Conway

Conway retired from competitive skating in 1992 and turned professional, becoming a regular performer in the Hot Ice Show at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Joris Carolus

Martin Conway argued in 1901 that Carolus’ chart indicated that he had discovered Edge Island; but, as Wielder points out, Conway was ignorant of a map (engraved in 1612) by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius, which illustrated a coastline to the east of Spitsbergen.

Józef H. Przytycki

In 1987, he and Pawel Traczyk published "Invariants of links of Conway type" (Kobe J. Math. 4, 115−139, 1987), which included a description of what is now called the HOMFLY(PT) polynomial.

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Kellyanne Conway

Conway and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake co-authored What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2005; ISBN 0-7432-7382-6)

Merchant W. Huxford

He was born in Conway, Massachusetts and later moved to St. Marys, Ohio before finally settling permanently in Fort Wayne.

Mount Kearsarge

Kearsarge North, located about 4 miles northeast of North Conway, New Hampshire

Niall Vallely

It featured a diverse range of guests including brother Cillian on uilleann pipes, Zoë Conway on fiddle, Cian O’Duill on viola, Kate Ellis on cello, Neil Yates on trumpet and flugelhorn, Ed Boyd and Paul Meehan on guitars and Brian Morrissey on bodhrán, percussion and banjo.

Pat Conway

In 1955 and 1956, Conway was cast in two historic roles on Walter Cronkite's CBS series You Are There, first as young boxer James J. Corbett, fighting the champion John L. Sullivan, in the segment "The Birth of Modern Boxing: John L. Sullivan—James J. Corbett Battle (September 7, 1892)" and then in the American Revolution segment "Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point (September 23, 1780)".

Sugarscape

John Conway's agent-based simulation "Game of Life" was enhanced and applied to Schelling's original idea by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell in their book Growing Artificial Societies.

The Lochmaben Harper

There are a number of paintings of them including The Blind Harper of Conway (1792) by Julius Caesar Ibbetson.

The Night the World Exploded

The scientific team of Dr. David Conway (William Leslie), Dr. Ellis Morton (Tristram Coffin) and Laura Hutchinson (Kathryn Grant) has built a machine that can predict earthquakes.

The Tim Conway Show

The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, a fall 1970 American comedy-variety show starring Tim Conway

Ace Crawford, Private Eye, a 1983 American situation comedy starring Tim Conway

The Triangles

Eleanor Horsburgh, Julie Conway, Katherine Simpson (née James), Matt Gormann and Robert Simpson met as school friends in Boronia, a suburb of Melbourne.

Theodore J. Conway

Conway’s decorations included the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters; French Legion of Honor; French Croix de Guerre with Palm; Czechoslovak Military Cross; Polish Golden Cross of Merit with Swords; Order of the British Empire; Order of the Crown of Italy; and the Army Distinguished Service Medal (US).

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase was sold by Commissioner Willey to Samuel W. Thompson of Conway and George P. Meserve of Jackson, New Hampshire in 1855 for $500 USD.

Tom Conway

Conway is perhaps best remembered for playing "The Falcon" in ten of the series' entries, taking over for his brother Sanders in The Falcon's Brother, in which they both starred that lead him to be a contract star with RKO Pictures.

In 1961, Conway provided his voice for Disney's 101 Dalmatians as a collie who offers the dalmatians shelter in a barn, later guiding them home.

Tracey Conway

Conway's speaking engagements include this experience and CPR/AED training.

Triaprism

Conway proposed a similar name proprism for product prism, thus applying to any number of products.

William A. Conway

Conway attended the Pingry School in Elizabeth, New Jersey but did not graduate due to a bout with rheumatic fever that sidelined him for several months.

William A. Conway's career was notable for the fact that he rose from Wall Street messenger boy to CEO of Garden State National Bank ("Garden State"), but he is best remembered for his efforts working as an activist shareholder of behalf of minority stockholders of Garden State during the late 1970s.


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