Mike Lesser

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Mike Lesser (born 1943 in London) is a mathematical philosopher and political activist.

Youngest member of Committee of One Hundred. Sent, aged sixteen, to Wormwood Scrubs Prison London with most of the Committee. He has served two spells as editor of London's Underground journal International Times.

He was active in May 1968 in Paris.

In 1992 he was the co-author, with Prof A. Wuensche, of the book "The Global Dynamics Of Cellular Automata", published in the "Santa Fe Institute's Reference Volumes." The book is an atlas of emergent 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 at Cranfield University, Bucks. UK. He is the co-author of several scientific papers on dynamical systems theory with Prof Allen.

He worked on super computers at NASA's Goddard Jet Propulsion Lab, DC, USA and at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, Oxon. UK. He has published papers on Autism with Dr. Dinah Murray with whom he co-founded Autism and Computing, a non-profit organization.