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|| SportsShooter.com: Member Message Board The End of Sports Writers? Sam Morris, Photographer Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 2:48 PM on 01.11.10 ->> Not likely, but researchers at Northwestern have figured out how to make a computer generate a sports story based on the box score and play-by-play. Story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122424166 Website: http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Mark Loundy, Photo Editor San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 2:52 PM on 01.11.10 ->> This comes up every few years. So far, it hasn't been viable. --Mark  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Erik Markov, Photographer Kokomo | IN | | Posted: 3:11 PM on 01.11.10 ->> Kind of funny, or not so funny, that one dept at Northwestern is trying to put another dept (journalism dept) out of business. I bet we see an article (maybe computer written?) about turf wars between the computer nerds and journalism geeks.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions John Germ, Photographer Wadsworth | Oh | USA | Posted: 3:13 PM on 01.11.10 ->> Personally I'd be more worried about frame grabs from video replacing still shots for a lot of local media. It's getting scary how good some of those grabs are looking.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Sean Burges, Photographer, Photo Editor Ottawa | ON | Canada | Posted: 3:31 PM on 01.12.10 ->> I think the computer-generated article thing has been done. If I remember correctly, a group of Dutch computer scientists fed up with impenetrable French post-structuralist philosophy created a key word algorithm that produced a set of academic papers, which I believed were actually accepted for publication.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Kevin Seale, Photographer Crawfordsville | IN | United States | Posted: 7:03 PM on 01.12.10 ->> From the website link above. "StatsMonkey is a joint project of the Medill School of Journalism and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University through the Center for Innovation in Technology, Media and Journalism."  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Doug Holleman, Photographer Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 7:22 PM on 01.12.10 ->> Now all that's left to do is automatically generate the 50-post sportsshooter.com thread about the photographer who wants to know if getting paid $50 for all rights was a fair price.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (2) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Michael C. Weimar, Photographer St. Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 7:38 PM on 01.12.10 ->> ->> Now all that's left to do is automatically generate the 50-post sportsshooter.com thread about the photographer who wants to know if getting paid $50 for all rights was a fair price. Don't you worry about that, there are enough people that would do it for the experience or exposure.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (1) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Mark Loundy, Photo Editor San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 8:06 PM on 01.12.10 ->> Doug, How do you know that's not already being done? --Mark.001  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (1) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Add your comments... If you'd like to add your comments to this thread, use this form. You need to be an active (paying) member of SportsShooter.com in order to post messages to the system. NOTE: If you would like to report a problem you've found within the SportsShooter.com website, please let us know via the 'Contact Us' form, which alerts us immediately. It is not guaranteed that a member of the staff will see your message board post. Thread Title: The End of Sports Writers? Thread Started By: Sam Morris Message: Member Login: Password: Return to --> Message Board Main Index

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