Bell Labs was an open environment. So management, I don't know which one, said, “Did you think of maybe looking at a painting by somebody and making a computer version of that to see which people could tell the difference?”
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Now, my management didn't want me to call it art. There were two reasons. One, they thought art was something that a museum would bless and say, “This is art,” putting the stamp of art on it.
A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on When It All Started