Ralph William Gosper Jr. (born April 26, 1943), known as Bill Gosper, is an American mathematician and programmer.[1] Along with Richard Greenblatt, he may be considered to have founded the hacker community, and he holds a place of pride in the Lisp community.[2] The Gosper curve and the Gosper's algorithm are named after him.
^Bill Gosper Archived January 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Vintage Computer Festival. Accessed January 3, 2007.
^Levy, Steven, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, (1984)
Ralph William Gosper Jr. (born April 26, 1943), known as BillGosper, is an American mathematician and programmer. Along with Richard Greenblatt, he may...
The Gosper curve, named after BillGosper, also known as the Peano-Gosper Curve and the flowsnake (a spoonerism of snowflake), is a space-filling curve...
of each cell of the automaton. The algorithm was first described by BillGosper in the early 1980s while he was engaged in research at the Xerox Palo...
Gosper may refer to: Gosper County, Nebraska Gosper curve BillGosper, American mathematician Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete and 1956 Olympic medalist...
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The first known puffer, in Conway's Game of Life, was discovered by BillGosper; it is a dirty puffer, but eventually stabilizes to leave a pattern of...
rep-tiles and pentominos of Solomon W. Golomb; the space filling curves of BillGosper; the aperiodic tiles of Roger Penrose; the Game of Life invented by John...
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File, smoking clover is a computer display hack, originally created by BillGosper. Several converging lines are drawn on a color monitor in such a way...
Symbolics recruited most of the remaining hackers including notable hacker BillGosper, who then left the AI Lab. Symbolics also forced Greenblatt to resign...
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much more rapidly than most arctan series, including Machin's formula. BillGosper was the first to use it for advances in the calculation of π, setting...
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influenced the hacker ethic. Some well-known "true hackers" include: BillGosper: Mathematician and hacker Richard Greenblatt: Programmer and early designer...
Percolation theory Self-avoiding walk People Michael Barnsley Georg Cantor BillGosper Felix Hausdorff Desmond Paul Henry Gaston Julia Helge von Koch Paul Lévy...
Percolation theory Self-avoiding walk People Michael Barnsley Georg Cantor BillGosper Felix Hausdorff Desmond Paul Henry Gaston Julia Helge von Koch Paul Lévy...
compiler, etc.), BillGosper (special functions, summation), Howard Cannon (user interface, optimization), and several consultants. Bill Dubuque worked...
company, to ensure that his vision was carried forth. Others (including BillGosper and Tom Knight) felt that to be under the rule of Greenblatt was unacceptable...
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