Mike Lesser | |
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| Born | Michael John Lesser (1943-09-28)28 September 1943 |
| Died | 1 July 2015(2015-07-01) (aged 71) Barnet, London, England |
Michael John Lesser (28 September 1943 – 1 July 2015) was amathematicalphilosopher andpolitical activist.
The youngest member of theCommittee of 100, he was sent, aged 16, toWormwood Scrubs Prison along with most of the committee. He served two spells as contributor to London'sunderground journalInternational Times.[1]
He was active inMay 1968 in France.[2]
In 1992 he was the co-author, with Prof A. Wuensche, of the bookThe Global Dynamics Of Cellular Automata, published in theSanta Fe Institute's Reference Volumes. The book is an atlas ofemergent forms evolving from the apparently chaotic product of a set of iterated logical operations.
He was assistant to the Directing Professor, P. Allen, at the Institute for Ecotechnological Research atCranfield University. He is the co-author of several scientific papers ondynamical systems theory with Allen.[3]
He worked onsuper computers atNASA's Goddard Jet Propulsion Lab and at theRutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxon, UK.
He published papers onautism withDinah Murray,[4] with whom he co-foundedAutism and Computing, a non-profit organization.
In 2009 he foundedThe International Times Archive, a free archive of every page ofInternational Times from its first issue in 1966 to its last in 1994.
A biographical interview may also be found in the style magazineDazed & Confused.[5] A more complete autobiography may be found inThe Times.[6]
Lesser died in London in 2015 at the age of 71.[1] In December 2015, coroner Andrew Walker atBarnet Coroners Court ruled that Lesser died fromasphyxiation. Evidence was given that Lesser had suffered from depression for "many years". He had aheart bypass in 1999 and in June 2015 had been told that he had terminallung cancer. He left a note for his wife and friends.[7]
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