Comment by osteele

The book Minskys & Trinskys referenced in the article can be previewed here http://www.blurb.com/bookshare/app/index.html?bookId=2172660

The third co-author “R.W. Gosper” is Bill Gosper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper, who discovered the glider gun and the hashlife algorithm (linked from the Wikipedia page).