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When Bob Mankoff announced last week that he was stepping down as cartoon editor of The New Yorker after 20 years, some people reached for the obvious, if not necessarily New Yorker-worthy, jokes. 在《纽约客》担任漫画编辑达20年的鲍勃·曼科夫(Bob Mankoff)于上周宣布离职，一些人就此开了几个浅显的玩笑，虽然不见得够得上《纽约客》的水准。 “Huge news for refrigerators everywhere,” one blogger wrote. Other fans hailed a “last laugh.” 一个博客上写道：“这对所有冰箱来说都是大资讯”。还有一些粉丝欢呼“笑到了最后”。 But while Mr. Mankoff, 72, may be leaving the magazine, he’s hardly retiring. He will be teaching a course about humor and communication at Fordham University. He’ll continue to consult on the Cartoon Bank, a licensing platform he founded in 1992. He’ll also be working on Botnik Studios, a company he’s creating with the comedy writer Jamie Brew that explores using artificial intelligence to augment creativity. (Mr. Mankoff, a former graduate student in experimental psychology, has already collaborated with a Microsoft researcher on an algorithm that can sort through the flood of entries to the magazine’s weekly cartoon caption contest.) 但是，就算离开这家杂志，72岁的曼科夫也不会退休。他将在福特汉姆大学(Fordham University)教授一门关于幽默和沟通的课程；并继续为他于1992年成立的授权平台“卡通银行”(Cartoon Bank)提供咨询；他还将为波特尼克工作室(Botnik Studios)工作，那是他与喜剧作家杰米·布鲁(Jamie Brew)一起创建的公司，旨在探索使用人工智能来增进创造力（曼科夫曾是实验心理学研究生，与微软一位研究员合作开发过一个算法，对《纽约客》每周报名参加卡通图注大赛的海量参赛作品进行分类）。 | 
