Mike Lesser is a mathematical philosopher and political activist.

The youngest member of the Committee of 100, he was sent, aged sixteen, to Wormwood Scrubs

Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison)

HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs is a Category B men's prison, located in the Wormwood Scrubs area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, in inner west London, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service....

 Prison along with most of the Committee. He has served two spells as contributor to London's Underground

Underground press

The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....

 journal International Times

International Times

International Times was an underground newspaper founded in London in 1966. Editors included Hoppy, David Mairowitz, Pete Stansill, Barry Miles, Jim Haynes and playwright Tom McGrath...

.

He was active in May 1968 in France.

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

Emergent

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 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

Cranfield University

Cranfield University is a British postgraduate university based on two campuses, with a research-oriented focus. The main campus is at Cranfield, Bedfordshire and the second is the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom based at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. The main campus is unique in the United...

. He is the co-author of several scientific papers on dynamical systems theory with Prof Allen.

He worked on super computers at NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

's Goddard Jet Propulsion Lab, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, USA and at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, Oxon. UK.

He has published papers on Autism

Autism

Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...

 with Dr. Dinah Murray with whom he co-founded Autism and Computing, a non-profit organization.

In 2009 he founded The International Times Archive, a free archive of every page of International Times from its first issue in 1966 to its last in 1994.

A more complete autobiography may be found in the Times
A biographical interview may also be found in the style magazine Dazed & Confused

Dazed & Confused (magazine)

Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine, that was set up in 1992 and published monthly. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and Rankin...

External links

• Nuclear bunker spy comes out of hiding Sunday Times, 21 March 2010