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Go Spotting: The Go Board in 'Turing's Cathedral'

In "Turing's Cathedral", author George Dyson's description of Princeton's Fuld Hall – where the Institute for Advanced Studies was to be housed – includes this line on page 90: ' A chessboard (and later a Go board, favoured by Oppenheimer's young particle physicists) sat near the windows overlooking the Institute Woods.” Dyson's account reveals how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, illuminating the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. - None Redmond