The Rules of the Game
v A game in the sense of a simple set of rules that can
give rise to complex behavior, rather than in the
sense of several players competing.
v The game is played on a 2 dimensional array of cells.
v Each cell is either alive or dead.  We are given some
starting configuration of live and dead cells.
v At each step, we compute the next state of the array.
v The game continues indefinitely, although obviously
you'll want to stop it at some point.