Maurice Wilkes: Difference

Maurice Wilkes was British computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on difference.

Maurice Wilkes: 14 quotes0 likes

“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.”

Sect. 4: Design and Assembly
"Computers Then and Now" (1968)

“Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one cannot help being struck by the power of the computer to bind together, in a genuine community of interest, people whose motivations differ widely.”

Sect. 6: Summary
"Computers Then and Now" (1968)

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. […] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

Sect. 4: Design and Assembly
"Computers Then and Now" (1968)