Tony Veale is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin, with a focus on computational creativity. He is the coauthor of Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning (MIT Press).

Foreword
Preface
1 Does Not Compute: Why Our Machines Need a Sense of Humor
2 It's a Joke, Jim, But Not as we Know It: A Tour of Scholarly Perspectives and Theories of Humor
3 Tweet my Shorts: Twitterbots Can Turn Our Theories into Simple Practice
4 Double Trouble: Humorous Storytelling and Embodied AI
5 Practical Magic: Systematic Approaches to Joke Creation
6 Danger, Danger: Incongruity and the Time Course of Jokes
7 Wit Happens: Computational Models of Punning and Wordplay
8 Physics Envy: Quantitative Approaches to Humor Analysis
9 Taking Exception: Computational Treatments of Sarcasm and Irony
10 At Wit's End: Lessons for the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index