Word: contests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program's first results have been mixed. This fall, in an online contest at www.instantnovelist.com, Brutus.1 competed against four humans who wrote short stories on the same topic. The computer's entry, "Self-Betrayal," was unremarkable; its first sentence, "Dave Striver loved the university--at least most of the time," seems to fail the "Call me Ishmael" test, and the protagonist's name is clumsily allegorical. In fact, the story came in last in a poll of visitors to the site; the literary field is for now safe from a deluge of machine-produced prose...
...Jerusalem, who decided to challenge an industry defined by creativity--advertising. The researchers noticed that a large minority of prize-winning ads followed a simple formula: find the product's characteristic that is its selling point, and use images to emphasize that characteristic in the ad. A similar contest found that the ads the researchers' computers produced were generally as good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls of the Old City to promote a tennis tournament in Jerusalem, the computer...
...similar fashion to Harvard's 2-1 loss to BU last Tuesday, Brown (1-6-0, 1-5-0 ECAC) dominated the contest for most of the three periods, stealing a 4-2 shocker from the Crimson...
...taught him how to play piano by ear. At the age of five, he did a rearrangement of "It's a Small World" with his tape recorder, inserting other Disney music into the catchy tune and rewriting the words. His arrangement won him a prize in a Disney-sponsored contest, and, more importantly, showed him that music was to be a huge part of his life...
...Though Brown and Harvard featured the top two offenses in the Ivy League entering the game, it was the defenses that controlled the contest. Despite turning the ball over four times in the first half, Harvard still led 10-3 early in the third quarter. But then Brown quarterback James Perry finally figured out the Harvard defense, completing 7-of-9 passes on a game-tying touchdown drive...