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Automata On The March
OldSchool writes "The Morris Museum (NJ) was recently awarded The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of 700 historic mechanical musical instruments and automata (mechanical figures). The extraordinary collection represents one of the most significant of its kind in the world.
There's pictures, demos, and animation of these devices at the museum website."
You just know that the museum director has gone mad and is currently hatching a diabolical scheme to get Data in that collection, too...
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she won't let you fly, but she might let you sing
My Formal Languages and Automata Theory class is finally going to be useful!
Play some free games
It's in Jersey...
I wonderd if they have the skeleton of that little person they used in that automagic chess "machine?"
It's got to be incomplete without an animatronic bear playing banjo and singing, "It's a small world after all."
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
Sept 27 2007 the little drummer boy becomes self aware
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
...that looked at the title and thought "Cool! An interview with Hopcroft and Ullman."
Then I click and see the doll dusting the picture, and I go mad Cthluthlu-style.
To begin with, to help all fellow nerds to understand that terms such as "cybernetics", "algorithm" or even "program" are not directly related to microchip-based modern computers. The term cyber- is often foolishly interpreted as "something computerlike" (especially in media buzzwords such as cyberporn or cyberbusiness) while it comes from ancient Greek (kybernetikos) and means actually "steering". I think it's good for any nerd worth its name to abstract sometimes from modern computer hardware and think of the whole theory of steering and algorithms in its pure form.
By the way: since pornography comes also from ancient Greek and means "depiction of a whore", cyberporn literally could be translated to "steering whore". Hmmmmm...