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A Cornell scientist with this surname led the development of the PL/C dialect of the PL/I programming language, and has the first name Richard. An informal law named for a person with this surname says that system designs tend to mirror the organizational structure of the designers. The “revolution” in using VLSI to make integrated circuits (-5[1])was due to Carver Mead and a scientist with this surname. A list of fourteen fractions amazingly encodes a program that generates prime numbers in (15[1])the esoteric language (*) FRACTRAN, (10[1])created by a person with this surname. After she revealed her intent to transition gender, IBM fired a scientist with this surname and first name Lynn. (10[1])A dead cell next to exactly three live cells becomes a live cell (10[1])in the next generation in a system created by a person with this surname. For 10 points, give this surname of the scientist who introduced a cellular automaton called the Game of Life. ■END■

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ashvin SrivatsaEight Megabytes And Constantly SwappingWe Bought a Complexity Zoo Story55-5
Henry Cafaroscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)a neural-net processor; a thinking machine8015
Swapnil GargWe Bought a Complexity Zoo StoryEight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping8410
Jaimie CarlsonDianetics for Diabeticsplaying emacs while my parents are arguing11010
Dylan MinarikEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial SinsMacro Editors12310

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
EMACS at CO08/06/2023Y4100%25%25%99.25
EMACS Online10/01/2023Y5100%20%0%101.60