Designing for (un)serendipity - computing and chance
André, Paul, schraefel, m.c., Teevan, Jaime and Dumais, Susan (2009) Designing for (un)serendipity - computing and chance. The Biochemist, 31, (6)
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Description/Abstract
The tale of a lame, one-eyed, toothless camel may not, at first glance, seem an auspicious start for ground-breaking discoveries of penicillin, X-rays and chocolate chip cookies. However, when Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in 1754, based on the tale of ‘The Three Princes of Serendip’ and the aforementioned camel, he was giving name to the accidental sagacity (i.e. accidental wisdom) involved in many scientific discoveries and inventions, where there is “no discovery of a thing you are looking for”.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Agents, Interactions & Complexity |
| Item ID: | 268313 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2009 16:57 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:01 |
| Contributors: | André, Paul (Author) schraefel, m.c. (Author) Teevan, Jaime (Author) Dumais, Susan (Author) |
| Date: | 1 December 2009 |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268313 |
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