Does anybody still have a copy of the file from the MIT-AI Lab PDP-10 called "AI: HUMOR; LOGO TURTLE" or something like that? I haven't been able to find a copy myself, but I remember reading it and have confirmed that it existed, and that it was published in SIGART around 1982.
It was Leigh Klotz's sarcastic response to a Defense Department questionnaire to Terrapin about how their technology could be used to kill people.
He proposed deploying a swarm of thousands of LOGO turtles to crawl around the battlefield in mesmerizing geometric patterns, and stab the enemy with a quick succession of PENUP and PENDOWN commands (proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword).
Cybernetic Zoo: A history of cybernetic animals and early robots: 1969 – The Logo Turtle – Seymour Papert et al (Sth African/American):
http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1969-the-logo-tur...
Logo's Yellow Turtle: First programmed in 1970. Built at MIT AI Lab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFhFPNO8hc
Logo Update, Volume 4, Number 3 - Spring 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120904211432/http://el.media.mi...
It was Leigh Klotz's sarcastic response to a Defense Department questionnaire to Terrapin about how their technology could be used to kill people.
He proposed deploying a swarm of thousands of LOGO turtles to crawl around the battlefield in mesmerizing geometric patterns, and stab the enemy with a quick succession of PENUP and PENDOWN commands (proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword).
Cybernetic Zoo: A history of cybernetic animals and early robots: 1969 – The Logo Turtle – Seymour Papert et al (Sth African/American):
http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1969-the-logo-tur...
Logo's Yellow Turtle: First programmed in 1970. Built at MIT AI Lab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFhFPNO8hc
Logo Update, Volume 4, Number 3 - Spring 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120904211432/http://el.media.mi...