50933 news 1265750415 1475895856 <![CDATA[A Robot Named Shimon Wants To Jam With You]]> 2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00 Last month, an improvisational jazz musician named Shimon hooked up to jam online with some iPhone-wielding Japanese through an application called ZoozBeat. Shimon, by the way, is a robot. He's programmed to improvise in the style of jazz great Thelonious Monk, says creator Gil Weinberg, adjunct associate professor in Interactive Computing. Source: NPR.org

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