Designing for (un)serendipity - Computing and chance

Biochemist

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 19-22

  André, Paul ^a   Schraefel, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer system; Creativity; Information theory; Insight; Pasteur; Support domain expertise

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951955096     PISSN: 0954982X     EISSN: 17401194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/bio03106019     Document Type: Note

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