How did a computer write a Western in 1960? 🤠 Doug Ross and Harrison “Dit” Morse programmed 13,000 lines of code to teach the MIT Transistorized EXperimental computer zero, better known as TX-0, how to write a script. The program used a set of rules to define basic plot elements, another to describe possible actions—like a robber opening a door or setting down a bag filled with gold—and a third set to modify those rules, such as accounting for the robber’s inebriation after drinking whiskey. Th

Mona Lisa Smile (2003) is a period drama set in 1953 about Katherine Watson, a progressive art-history professor from California who takes a job at the elite, conservative women’s college Wellesley and tries to push her students to imagine lives beyond the “marriage first, career never” script laid out for them. Her brightest students, Betty, Joan, Giselle, Connie arrive overprepared, able to recite the textbook but not to question the narrow futures the college and their families expect, so Kat