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• life: n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific American", October 1970)
  he game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand....
• SPACEWAR: n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E.
  E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• Life is a Game; Cheat!
• Gosperism: /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R.
  William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them....
• Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
• Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else.
  If what already is, is more important than what isn't, the game is over....
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....