INTRODUCTION
Almost half a century ago I was an undergraduate-aspiring-architect studying at a school where the design studio was reserved for the elders while the rest of us fulfilled our general requirements. An early interest in computers had led me to a lower-level course called 'Introduction to Computer Graphics', where, according to the syllabus, we were to spend the first three drab weeks programming oscilloscopes to draw circles; exercises in early computer-aided design (CAD) on the first graphic displays – which were, of course, about 6 in wide, as seen in Figure 0.1.
Deciding that slog was not for me, I stumbled upon an exotic class in the same department called 'Natural Language Processing', where, apparently, we were going to teach ...
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