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[[File:Bill_Gosper_2006.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px|Bill Gosper 2006 <ref>Mathematician Bill Gosper in March, 2006 at the [http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~sdickson/G4G7/G4G7_Trip_Report.html Seventh Gathering for Gardner] (G4G7) in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta Atlanta], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29 Georgia], March 16, 2006, Photographer [http://www.flickr.com/people/thane/ Thane Plambeck]</ref>]]

an American mathematician and computer scientist, along with [[Richard Greenblatt]] considered the co-founder of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture hacker] community <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution]</ref>. In the 60s, affiliated with [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], he worked for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC%7CProject Project MAC] (Machine-Aided Cognition), where his contributions to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_mathematics computational mathematics] and [[Bit-Twiddling]] including include [[#HAKMEM|HAKMEM]] and [[Lisp#Maclisp|Maclisp]]. He helped Greenblatt with his chess program [[Mac Hack|Mac Hack VI]], and operated the [[PDP-6]] when [[Mac Hack#RobertQ|Robert Q]] played its first tournament game versus Carl Wagner.

In the 70s, Bill Gosper moved to [[Stanford University]] for some years, where he lectured and helped [[Donald Knuth]] to write volume II of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming The Art of Computer Programming]. He has worked at or consulted for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29 Xerox PARC], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics Symbolics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Research Wolfram Research], the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma Macsyma] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper Bill Gosper from Wikipedia]</ref>. Bill Gosper created numerous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_problem packing problem] puzzles such as the ''Twubblesome Twelve'' <ref>[http://gosper.org/ Twubblesome Twelve - a difficult puzzle] by Bill Gosper</ref>, and was interested in the [[John H. Conway|Conway's]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life|Game of Life]], where he found the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_%28cellular_automaton%29|Glider Gun]] and originated the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife|Hashlife]] algorithm to speed up the computation of Life patterns <ref>[http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~jowen/hashlife.html Gosper's Algorithm (Hashlife) explained]</ref>.