samedi 14 juin 2014

George and the Unbreakable Code by Lucy and Stephen Hawking

George and the Unbreakable Code - Lucy and Stephen Hawking

On Earth, computer systems are acting strangely the only common thing between all these strange events is that they seem to be good … Banks are handing out free money; supermarkets can’t charge for their produce so people are getting free food; aircraft are refusing to fly in war zones; and theme parks are giving free rides to everyone. No one knows where or when the next ‘Random Act of Kindness’ will happen – or who is behind them. 

When scientist Eric’s personalised robot, Ebot, disappears, followed by Eric himself, his daughter Annie and her best friend George realise they have to find Eric, and find out how and why these random acts of kindness may not be so kind after all . . .

"It's a quirky and quite weird adventure story which also covers computer code, algorithms, Enigma, the Turing Machine, Boltzmann brains, evolution, quantum computing - and onesies. It's all there!"

Stephen Hawking

See a review, or you can order your copy at amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.

George and the Unbreakable Code - children's book by Stephen Hawking - Two pages extract in The Sun