Computer Science can inspire Poetry
Are there any links between poetry and computing? Seems unlikely. But people have been writing poems about computational topics for a long, long time.…
Victorian logician Augustus De Morgan famous for his laws of boolean logic also Maths tutor of Victorian computer scientist Ada Lovelace wrote a poem about recursion, and ancient greek poet Pindar wrote about automata.
You can write algorithmic poems or write algorithms that create poems, or write poems inspired by the effects on technology…
Why not, have a go at writing a tech-inspired poem yourself? Below are some historical poems and ideas. Find more ideas on Teaching London Computing.
An ode to technology
People have always been fascinated by automata: robot-style contraptions allowing inanimate animal and human figures to move, long before computers could take the place of a brain as shown in an ode by an ancient greek Pindar… (read on)
Great Fleas… a poem about recursion
One of my favourite poems is about fleas (and recursion) and was written by the Victorian logician Augustus De Morgan who is famous for his laws of boolean logic that are a mainstay of reasoning about boolean tests in programs…. (read on)
Emotions and Emoticon
The first use of an emoticon (like 🙂 and 😦 which we think of as a modern invention arising from the need to add emotion to text-based message, was actually in a poem written in 1648 by English poet Robert Herrick 🙂 … (read on)
Transitional Automaton: a poem
Vasileios Klimis is both a computer scientist and a poet, He is fascinated by the language we use to describe systems that shape our inner lives whether they are emotional, social, or computational. Here is one of his poems … (read on)
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