From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce58e33d1a25adb4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107568,ce58e33d1a25adb4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107568,public From: dwalker07@snet.net.invalid (Daryle Walker) Subject: [Light] Ada and the EMH Date: 2000/05/24 Message-ID: <1eb3vu2.70oqxm1jsfi4gN%dwalker07@snet.net.invalid>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 627002994 X-Complaints-To: abuse@snet.net X-Trace: typhoon.snet.net 959226247 204.60.28.47 (Wed, 24 May 2000 23:44:07 EDT) Organization: SNET Internet User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.6 (unregistered for 140 days) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:44:07 EDT Newsgroups: alt.tv.star-trek.voyager,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: This isn't a major issue, just something I think is a nice coincidence in ideas. In a _Star Trek: Voyager_ episode ("Darkling"?), Chief Engineer B'Lanna Torres advises the Emergency Medical Hologram program about the dangers of grafting personality profiles onto itself. Her example was the wild attitudes of Lord Byron. I think it was neat using that example, since Lord Byron's most famous kid, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace (a.k.a. Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace), was considered one of the first computer programmers. This was back in the age with Charles Babbage and mechanical computers. There's even a computer programming language named in her honor. [Obl. cla] Are there any applications/research in AI using Ada? (Obviously, a real EMH is beyond our capabilities, both in software and [especially] in hardware.) [Obl. atstv] Do you think the ST guys thought of this connection, or was it a happy coincidence? (Probably the latter, since they can't get basic computer stuff like copying files, restoring from backups, and truly compressing files [instead of chopping off unneeded bits] right.) -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie dwalker07 AT snet DOT net