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Aside from its significance to network computing, Theseus serves as a vivid example of an early connection between mazes and computers. Furthermore, Theseus shares a procedural resonance with 10 PRINT. Theseus “learned” through a repetitive process the fundamental process that draws the 10 PRINT maze. And like a computer program, the mouse in Shannon’s maze was only the surface level signifier of much deeper processes. Theseus in fact was dumb, inert. The “brain” of Theseus lay in the relays hidden underneath the surface of the maze, much in the same way the on-screen design of 10 PRINT is generated by an piece of code, initially not very clear, which depends upon an invisible, low-level call to generate pseudo-random numbers. | Aside from its significance to network computing, Theseus serves as a vivid example of an early connection between mazes and computers. Furthermore, Theseus shares a procedural resonance with 10 PRINT. Theseus “learned” through a repetitive process the fundamental process that draws the 10 PRINT maze. And like a computer program, the mouse in Shannon’s maze was only the surface level signifier of much deeper processes. Theseus in fact was dumb, inert. The “brain” of Theseus lay in the relays hidden underneath the surface of the maze, much in the same way the on-screen design of 10 PRINT is generated by an piece of code, initially not very clear, which depends upon an invisible, low-level call to generate pseudo-random numbers. | ||
| − | “Better Mouse: A Robot Rodent Masters Mazes.” Life, July 28, 1952. | ||
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| − | Dyson, George. Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. Da Capo Press, 1998. | ||
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| − | “Mouse with a Memory.” Time, May 19, 1952. | ||
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=== The Computerized Maze === | === The Computerized Maze === | ||
