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From: hm02+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hans P. Moravec)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Eric Mueller's Daydreamer
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Date: 5 Jun 91 01:02:31 GMT
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> From: nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
> Subject: Re: Eric Mueller's Daydreamer
>     There was a system in the 1950s (!) which generated scripts for
> TV Westerns by somewhat similar means.  Anyone have the reference?

Knuth "The Art of Computer Programming" Volume 2 (p 174:175) mentions it,
  and gives sample output.
  It was written especially for a (very good) 1960 CBS TV program
  entitled "The Thinking Machine".  I (re)read more about it recently
  in a 1961 paperback based on that program excavated from my
  archives, but it's at home, and I'm not.
                                           -- Hans Moravec