Computer program in Queens is mistaken for a human
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The author of the PC Therapist III computer program, which won a contest evaluating computer programs' artificial intelligence, is a computer guru who lives in Woodside, Queens, NY. The contest was sponsored in honor of British mathematician Alan M. Turing who many decades ago suggested that if a computer could pass itself off in a conversation as a human, the machine could be said to be thinking. Winning the contest surprises Weintraub, who expects visits from Japanese television and a Russian film crew that are interested in the story of the software. Sales of the program, available through mail-order from Weintraub, are soaring. The program is based on Weintraub's psychology studies at City College in Queens. He wrote the program at home. In the contest, five of 10 judges mistook the program for a human. It uses combinations of phrases to imitate human conversation.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Cult film is a first on Internet
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On Saturday, May 22, 1993, the first movie to be transmitted on the Internet computer network was shown. The cult movie entitled 'Wax: Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees' is an 85-minute feature that had to be reduced from color to black and white; its audio was sometimes silent. Despite its technical deficiencies, the showing of the movie was a historic event. It signified the first step in the quest to set up a 500-channel, all-digital television. Internet is the global computer network that connects academic researchers and scientists. The movie was fed into the Internet by David Blair, its producer, after he converted the movie into digital form from a VCR to a computer.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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