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A "skillful, literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly...
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Writer and the city volume 3
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The promise of a destiny, verging on the erotic on one side and the artistic on the other, seems always to have attached itself to Florence in the imagination of the foreigner... So Leavitt writes of the city where he made his home in the 1990s--as part of Florence's Anglo-American community. From the middle of the nineteenth century until the rise of Mussolini, visitors and expatriates ranging from Ronaldo Firbank to Henry James to Mary McCarthy...