Emily Howell, a classical composer, is set to debut her new album in the coming weeks. The thing is, Emily Howell is a computer program. Emily is the creation of David Cope, a composer and programer. Over the last 30 years Cope has been on the vanguard of artificial creativity. AC is a branch of the field of artificial intelligence applied to creative work. Cope isn't the first to create of art...
Random Facts About San Francisco
It is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous in the United States.
Alcatraz means “pelican” in Spanish, and was a military fort before it became a prison.
“Baghdad by the Bay” will soon be visited by the five members of the Womp Team, as well as myself, as we were selected to represent the MDM program at the Game Developer’s...
Two one hundredths of a second. That's the different between winning and losing in Olympic sports. In our daily lives such a duration is meaningless. It's faster than the blink of an eye. The sponsor for Olympic timing equipment, Omega, takes a prominent role in determining the outcome of these competitions. The milliseconds matter. When the Olympics first began in ancient Greece or even the...
So I live right off of the eclectic Commercial Avenue, and there’s a house on my way to the bus stop that’s painted its windows a vibrant and patriotic red-and-white, with a lovely, painstakingly traced script that reads, “Let’s get this over with.”
As far as anti-Olympic signs go, it’s pretty ingenious, and as much as I’ve had three Canuck playoff-run’s worth of debauchery over the past two...
When working with technology there is often a tendency to think that everything you are doing is new and uncharted. This narrow field of vision often results in bad strategy and arrogant decisions. To combat this we must absorb broader experiences beyond our medium to distill the most important elements of media in a Web 2.0 world - our societal and psychological tendencies....