Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Monkeys Are Rewriting Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is often regarded as the world's pre-eminent writer, but so what? Most of his complete works are so elementary, they could be written by monkeys. Don't think so? Just ask Jesse Anderson.

Anderson, a software developer in Nevada, is up to some serious monkey business. He recently developed a computer program that simulated a few million virtual monkeys randomly bashing away on virtual typewriters. Their assignment? Randomly re-create the complete works of William Shakespeare.

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