Designing for (un)serendipity - computing and chance
Designing for (un)serendipity - computing and chance
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”.
computer system, creativity, information theory, insight, pasteur, support domain expertise
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André, Paul
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schraefel, m.c.
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1 December 2009
André, Paul
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schraefel, m.c.
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André, Paul and schraefel, m.c.
(2009)
Designing for (un)serendipity - computing and chance.
[in special issue: Serendipity in Science]
The Biochemist, 31 (6), .
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”.
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Published date: 1 December 2009
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computer system, creativity, information theory, insight, pasteur, support domain expertise
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