Libraries are wonderful places and library book sales are temptations impossible to resist -- and so, during a recent trip to Boston and exploration of the historic public library buildings on Boylston Street, I purchased a copy of Living Proof (Florida International University Press, 1985) by Edmund Skellings (1932-2012). Born in Boston and a poet laureate of Florida, Skellings was a pioneer in the application of computers to the arts and humanities. The word "proof" in his title was enough to make me pick up the book and I have relished the opportunity to turn up memories of a long ago graduate course in AI while reading this poem:
Artificial Intelligence by Edmund Skellings
Euclid rolled over in his bones
When Newell & Simon instructed
Their machine to look for new proof
For bisecting the ordinary triangle.
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Monday, November 2, 2015
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