- Homer Jacobson
Homer Jacobson is a former chemistry professor at
Brooklyn College ,New York City .In the 1950s he illustrated basic
self-replication inartificial life with a model train set.Fact|date=October 2007 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.Fact|date=October 2007In 1955 he published "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life," in "
American Scientist ". In 2007, he retracted two passages of this work after realizing that errors in his paper were being misread as evidence forcreationism . [cite news|publisher=New York Times |date=2007-10-25|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/25jacobson.html|title=’55 ‘Origin of Life’ Paper Is Retracted|author=Cornelia Dean]Articles
*" [http://pubmed-central.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1058447 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)
** Retraction of two passages: [http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/56234 Letter to the editor] , "American Scientist" (November-December 2007)
*" [http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Computing/Jacobson-H/TICotEye.html The Informational Capacity of the Human Eye] ," "Science" 113:292-293 (March 16, 1951).
*" [http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Computing/Jacobson-H/TICotEar.html The Informational Capacity of the Human Ear] ," "Science" 112:143-144 (August 4, 1950).References
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Artificial life
*Edward F. Moore
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