Sukanta Das – författare

This book brings together the impact of Prof. John Horton Conway, the playful and legendary mathematician''s wide range of contributions in science which includes research areas—Game of Life in cellular automata, theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory, and coding theory.  It contains transcripts where some eminent scientists have shared their first-hand experience of interacting with Conway, as well as some invited research articles from the experts focusing on Game of Life, cellular automata, and the diverse research directions that started with Conway''s Game of Life. The book paints a portrait of Conway''s research life and philosophical direction in mathematics and is of interest to whoever wants to explore his contribution to the history and philosophy of mathematics and computer science. It is designed as a small tribute to Prof. Conway whom we lost on April 11, 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 4th Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, ASCAT 2025, held in Ranchi, India, during March 6–8, 2025.

The 16 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. This symposium aims to explore the latest insights and innovations in multiple theoretical aspects of Cellular Automata Technology and their applications across various domains.

This book gathers selected research papers presented at the First Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT 2022), organized online by academicians from Kolkata, India, during March 3–5, 2022. The book presents one of the most emergent areas in natural computing, cellular automaton (CA). CA is a paradigm of uniform fine-grained parallel computation which has been explored to understand complex systems by developing its model at the microscopic level. The book discusses many real-life problems in the domain of very large-scale integration (VLSI) design and test, pattern recognition and classification, cryptography, pseudo-random pattern generation, image processing, sensor networks, material science, etc., by using CA.