Etienne Cherdlu

[David Casseres]

>>There is a chapter in Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal >Golden 
>>Braid titled "SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing" which consists of a dialog 
>>between a human, Eta Oin, and a computer program, SHRDLU.
>
>One can't help wonder if AI researcher Terry Winograd, originator of the 
>famous SHRDLU natural language computer program, was possibly a Pynchon fan.


No no.  Only a few years ago (well maybe 20), there was nothing unusual 
about knowing the string ETAOIN SHRDLU.  Honest.  Not everyone knew it 
was the top row on a Linotype keyboard but everyone who was literate had 
seen it many times.

Cheers,
David