David Eppstein
| David Eppstein | ||
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| Born | 1963 | |
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| Residence | Irvine, California | |
| Nationality | American | |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Columbia University | |
David Arthur Eppstein is a computer scientist, mathematician and Life enthusiast from California. He is Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Irvine, director of the Center for Algorithms and Theory of Computation, and associate director of the Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization.
He is the author of the gfind spaceship search program.
For many years Dr. Eppstein maintained the "Gliders in Life-Like Cellular Automata" online database at fano.ics.uci.edu/ca/. That website has been offline since sometime in 2018, but there have been updates to the underlying database, and a replacement online search utility for the database has since been created.[note 1]
He created a "Most Wanted" list of twenty-two outer-totalistic rules in which the discovery of spaceships would be of interest, of which nine thus far have had examples found, as well as all eight former entries.
Notes
- ↑ The replacement web app is available by this direct link; see also a forum post introducing and describing the "gliderdb-searcher" utility. See also glider.db
External links
- David Eppstein's homepage
- Gliders in Life-Like Cellular Automata (replaced fano.ics.uci.edu/ca/ link with current online equivalent)
- David Eppstein's blog
- David Eppstein at Wikipedia
- David A. Eppstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Eppstein, D on arXiv
- David Eppstein at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (Life Credits)
Patterns found by David Eppstein
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