The latest addition to my website is Christos Papadimitriou‘s Turing : A Novel about Computation. Ethel, a computer scientist who has developed a relevance search engine, is on holiday in Greece, looking for a Greek god. She meets Alexandros, a twice-divorced archaeologist much older than her. They start an affair. She gets pregnant but heads back home to California as she finds him too intense. Alexandros has found Turing, an AI with an attitude and it discusses computers, AI , ,mathematical theory, life and other topics with Alexandros and later with his sixteen year old daughter as well. Ian, Ethel’s latest boyfriend,Ian, a top computer hacker, hacks in and joins the conversation. With Ian, Ethel and others assuming fake on-line identities, things get complicated . It is rather an odd novel as we get a lot about mathematical theory, a fictitious history of AI and other tangents as well as a love story.