Last time, we asked contestants to identify the cartoonist responsible for this gem:
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Tour of Accounting:
"Over here we have our random number generator."
"NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE"
"Are you sure that's random?"
"That's the problem with randomness: You can never be sure."
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The answer, of course, is: Scott Adams, born June 8, 1957, who launched the Dilbert strip in 1989.
From the several correct responses, we arbitrarily selected
BECKY L. NORUM
as our winning contestant. (Becky, please send your surface mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and indicate whether you would like JUnit in Action or Struts in Action)
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NEXT:
In 1950, the journal MIND, a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, published a seminal paper regarding artificial intelligence.
1 What was the title of the paper?
2 Who was the author of the paper?
Any contestants correctly answering these two questions will qualify for this week's drawing. As always, the correct answers are the ones that I expect :)
** BONUS QUESTION **
3 The author of this paper used his initials for his first and middle name. What Hugo-winning story by Harlan Ellison regarding artificial intelligence features a protagonist whose name are these same two initials?
Any contestant correctly answering the bonus question will also qualify, regardless. :) [I do love my Ellison!]
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The contest will run until Thursday, December 4, 2003, 23:59:59, so everyone has a chance to participate.
The lucky winner selected from the correct responses will receive their choice of either a signed copy of Struts in Action *OR* JUnit in Action.
PLEASE be sure to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you have an interesting science fiction or computer science question that is hard, or at least fun, to google, please send it to me. The first to suggest a question that we use also wins!
-Ted.
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-- Ted Husted, Junit in Action - <http://www.manning.com/massol/>, Struts in Action - <http://husted.com/struts/book.html>, JSP Site Design - <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1861005512>.
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