The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed: Computer Prose and Poetry by Racter

Melvin Lewis Prueitt

Racter, William Chamberlain

1984

Book

Warner Software / Warner Books, New York
Paperback
120 pages
9.5" tall

The Library AI

Description

Racter, short for “raconteur,” was a program by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter. Chamberlain writes in his introduction to this 1984 Warner paperback that everything in the book apart from the introduction was written by the computer and proofread for spelling but otherwise not edited. Joan Hall’s collages, the cover portrait among them, use graphic elements from Computer Graphics: 118 Computer-Generated Designs (Dover, 1975). Its author, Melvin L. Prueitt, was a physicist who made computer graphics at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Ohne Titel (Untitled) (1) by Klaus Grundey, 1984

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