Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Nick Montfort

2024

Book

The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Counterpath
Paperback
504 pages
7 x 9 in

The Library

Description

Output collects about 200 pieces of writing produced by computer programs between 1953 and 2023, sorted into genres such as conversations, novels, sonnets and tweets. The editors are the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, a poet and artist who works in code. Among the early entries are the love letters Christopher Strachey programmed on the Ferranti Mark 1 at Manchester, some of them printed in the 1954 issue of Encounter that is also in the collection, and Theo Lutz’s Stochastic Texts of 1959.

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