Word: humanoids
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Once upon a time, an aged inventor (Vincent Price) lived in a mansion at the edge of Any Town, U.S.A. His crowning creation was a young humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp). Alas, the old genius died before he could give Edward human hands. So for many years this benign creature lived alone. Until one day an Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) came calling, and then...
Today hundreds of people are exploring that question. At Bellcore, the research affiliate of the Bell telephone companies, David Ackley makes little creatures with humanoid faces that roam around a computer-simulated world consuming resources, evading predators and multiplying like rabbits. At UCLA David Jefferson and Robert Collins have created colonies of randomly generated "ants" that over many generations evolve the ability to navigate electronic mazes and search for symbols representing food...