The world’s most advanced music AI runs on a rickety old Power Mac 7500.
Called Emily Howell by its creator, music professor David Cope, the program just released “her” first album, From Darkness, Light, in January.
Some say Emily Howell passes a version of the Turing Test: listeners cannot tell the music was composed by software. In a fantastic report [...]
Written by Leander Kahney on March 4th, 2010 with no comments.
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On Friday, Pete called our attention to a lovely poem by Beat poet Gary Snyder called “Why I Take Good Care of My Macitosh,” which features lovely stanzas like:
And puts word-heaps in hoards for me, dozens of pockets of gold under boulders in streambeds, identical seedpods strong on a vine, or it stores bins of [...]
Written by John Brownlee on January 26th, 2010 with no comments.
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Although Guy Day is, as pictured, about as far away from the har- boozing, womanizing, red-meat-eating Don Draper type as a 70s-style pompadour will get you, he was one of the country’s quintessential ad men for decades.
Everyone reading this blog knows his work: as the president of the acclaimed Chiat / Day advertising agency, [...]
Written by John Brownlee on January 26th, 2010 with no comments.
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If astronaut Leroy Chiao has anything to say about it, Apple’s iPhone may be the first smartphone in space.
The former NASA astronaut, who has four missions in space under his belt, including a six and a half month stint on the international space station, has been a Mac nut since 1985. Today he is [...]
Written by Lonnie Lazar on January 26th, 2010 with no comments.
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What it is: BumpTop for Mac is OS X software that gives you a whole new way of looking at and using your desktop, one that brings your computer screen into the realm of 3D imaging and instantly grows your monitor’s real estate – no matter how large or small – into a more productive [...]
Written by Lonnie Lazar on January 20th, 2010 with no comments.
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