**AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an Accidental Expert on Conway's Game of Life** I drifted into the Conway's Life research community in 2001 when I won a small cash prize for a lucky discovery of something called a "boojum reflector". My involvement has gradually snowballed since then. Off and on I've helped maintain various Life-related mailing lists and blogs, the Life Lexicon, and more recently the conwaylife.com forums and LifeWiki. Another thing I stumbled into was helping Nathaniel Johnson complete an improbably thorough 480-pa ... ⌘ Read more