Matthew Cook

Matthew Cook (born February 7, 1970) is a mathematician and computer scientist who proved Stephen Wolfram's conjecture that the Rule 110 cellular automaton is Turing-complete.

Read more about Matthew Cook:  Biography, Work With Stephen Wolfram

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