“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.” BelieveHumansHas BeensImportantHomeUnderstandingNumbersCenturyFieldsSceneComputerTestsMachinesExcitingBritishLondonSufficientConvinceArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoyalControversialFittingIconicMilestoneLandmarks Author:Kevin Warwick
“The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveLooksPlayJobsCan DoTechnologyAudiencePlayerLike YouGeniusSceneComputerTheatreBrilliantSupposed To BePianoYou Can Do ItBelieve You CanAmazing Music Author:Michael Sheen
“You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.” ThinkingWayStillsSometimesWholeHappensActionFightingMonthsSceneDirectorsComputerShotsDecidedComplicated Author:Paul Bettany
“Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.” PeopleWellsTodayFilmYoungSpaceGoneCuttingAirMastersSceneComputerInstrumentsHistoricalEpicAstronautSympatheticDisconnectedStanleyOdysseyFrame Of ReferenceSpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Camille Paglia
“As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.” DifferentHardReadySceneComputerChaptersStunned Author:Alexander Chee
“I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.” PartySceneOfficeComputerSeriesPhotographScreensIceChairsCakePlasticConstructsFrozenColorfulDecorationDrearyVery SadCubesMiniaturesBirthday PartyDollhouses Author:Matthea Harvey
“In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing else there, so everything had to be created in the computer, and that's always very difficult.” FirstsDifficultSceneComputerPlanesEarthquakesLimos Author:Roland Emmerich
“I get a lot of credit for Tron. They called us scene choreographers back then because the animation unit wouldn't let us be called animators because we were working on computers. And we were some of the first people ever to make 3-D computer animation.” PeopleSceneComputerAnimationAnimator Author:Chris Wedge
“Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.” FilmSceneComputerDrawsAliensExtrasSci FiEpicSci Fi Film Author:William Shatner
“Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.” WayLongCountryEasySceneComputerInternationalPermanentBudgetsModestLiteracyLong WayCyberspaceInvadingFixtureComputer Literacy Author:Evgeny Morozov
“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?” IfsMenWorldWayWritingPlayRunningJobsNightActorsSoundDarkFictionSceneComputerBeatsExpertsGorgeousAlleysFiction WritersPsychoBetter JobsForensicsDark AlleysGorgeous Women Author:Ridley Pearson