Homer Jacobson

In the 1950s he illustrated basic Self-replication in Artificial Life with a model train set. A seed "organism" consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar could use the simple rules of the system to consistently create new "organisms" identical to itself, so long as there was a random pool of new boxcars to draw from.

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" Virustat, a Device for Continuous Production of Viruses ," ''Applied Microbiology'', 14(6): 940–952 (1966 November) with Leslie S. Jacobson.

"The informational content of mechanisms and circuits," ''Information and Control'', 2(3):285-296, September 1959.

"On Models of Reproduction," ''American Scientist'' 46(1958):255-284.

"Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life," ''American Scientist'', p. 125 (January 1955)

" The Informational Capacity of the Human Eye ," ''Science'' 113:292-293 (March 16, 1951).

" The Informational Capacity of the Human Ear ," ''Science'' 112:143-144 (August 4, 1950).

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