Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels | Nautilus
Q. Would you read a computer generated romance novel?
A. May be, out of curiosity.
Q. Do you think such novel could bring tears to your eyes?
A. Oh, dear, I don’t think so - it takes a human to make other human cry.
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories | Quanta Magazine
“The contest officials had identified approximately 2,000 words they could expect, but Knuth found more than 4,700. He was rewarded with a spot on television and chocolate for his entire class. He would go on to win many more accolades, including the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the National Medal of Science and the A.M. Turing Award.”
Air Conditioning Wasn’t Invented to Provide Comfort to Human Beings | IEEE Spectrum
“Air conditioning was devised not for comfort but for industry, specifically to control temperature and humidity in a color printing factory in Brooklyn. The process required feeding paper into the presses a number of times, once for each of the component colors, and the slightest misalignment caused by changes in humidity produced defective copies that had to be thrown away.”