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Poetry
Typing to Turing
by Samantha Neave
The bombe, designed by Alan Turing, was an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-encrypted messages during World War II.
Can computers think?
The question? – an enigma,
As I type, I hope they do
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