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unusual facts about Core War


Thomas S. Ray

Tom Ray is also a former member of the International Core War Society.


Evolving digital ecological networks

Steen Rasmussen was the first to include the possibility of mutation in self-replicating computer programs by extending the once-popular Core War game, where programs competed in a digital battle ground for the computer's resources.


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Digital organism

Steen Rasmussen at Los Alamos National Laboratory took the idea from Core War one step further in his core world system by introducing a genetic algorithm that automatically wrote programs.