Mike Lesser

Michael John Lesser (28 September 1943 – 1 July 2015) was a British mathematical philosopher and political activist. He was the youngest member of the Committee of 100, and at 16, was sent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He contributed to London's underground journal *International Times* and was active in May 1968 in France. In 1992, he co-authored *The Global Dynamics Of Cellular Automata*. He also worked as an assistant at Cranfield University, contributed to scientific papers on dynamical systems theory, and worked on supercomputers at NASA and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. Lesser published papers on autism with Dinah Murray and co-founded the non-profit organization *Autism and Computing*. In 2009, he established *The International Times Archive*. He died in London in 2015 at the age of 71, with the coroner ruling his death as asphyxiation due to his long-term depression and terminal lung cancer diagnosis.