Douglas Hofstadter is most well-known in Nomic communities as the person responsible for introducing them to the Nomic concept.
Hofstadter originally discussed Nomic in his Metamagical Themas column in Scientific American 246 (June 1982) pp16-28. Later, it was published in a collection of his columns titled "Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern" (ISBN 0-14-008534-3).
Hofstadter currently has a small web presence at 
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/people/d/dughof.html and http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/people/homepages/hofstadter.html and more can be read about him there and in his departmental report narrative. His projects have led him into work on determining how creativity, thought and consciousness come about. One of the most fascinating things one of his students developed, with mentoring from him, was a program called CopyCat?, which imitated the process of determining the answer to a puzzle of the type
abc -> abd :: ijk -> ???
The program tries to find relationships between the letters, the positioning and the changes made to determine what should go in place of the question marks.
That work, and others like it, can be seen at the page for the Fluid Analogies Research Group, part of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, located at http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/.
DouglasHofstadter is an officially recognised Hero of Agora Nomic.