HORACE FLETCHER

Horace Barlow

Horace Barlow is retired Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He graduated in Medicine at Cambridge in 1947 and stayed there doing research in vision until 1964. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, staying there until 1973 when he returned to Cambridge. His main interest has always been in vision, ...

HORACE —an artificial columnist

After a brief outlook on the field of random text generation, in particular on Andrew Bulhak’s Postmodernism generator, the present paper describes a program for generation of random, meaningless but grammatically correct text in Swedish. The program, named Horace, is intended to simulate the abstract reasoning of (some) literary columnists. Horace is written in Prolog using the DCG formalism. ...

Horace Judson (1931–2011)

Scientists, I once heard, have an easier time of it than composers and artists. In a ‘‘new’’ field, such as molecular biology, anything that happened more than three weeks ago is ancient history (as Sidney Brenner once said). We bold scientific searchers, like born agains, rise each morning to fashion a new world, with our own discoveries in the form of facts, lots of them (check out the length...

Logan Fletcher

Fred Dretske opens his book Knowledge and the Flow of Information with the assertion that information is objective. In contrast to the common view of information “as something that depends on the interpretive efforts— and, hence, on the prior existence—of intelligent life,” Dretske intends to develop a view of information “as an objective commodity, something whose generation, transmission, and...

Robert Fletcher