Maurice Wilkes Quotes:
Ocupation: Computer Scientist
Life: June 26, 1913 - November 29, 2010
Birthday: June 26
Death: November 29
The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.
source: "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 4, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.
topic: Inspiration, Animal, Wings, Misled, Flying Machines, Flapping
