雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(106)
In the new year of 1948, an alternative possibility came into being for Alan's future.
For if the NPL project had ground to a sticky halt, the Manchester development had bounded along with great speed.
國家物理實驗室的項目已經擱淺到如此地步，但曼徹斯特方面卻在飛速發展。By the end of 1947 Williams had stored 2048 digits on an ordinary cathode ray tube screen, which was at least the equivalent of having a cheap, working delay line available.
1947年末，威廉姆斯已經能夠在一個普通的陰極射線管中存儲2048個二進制位。
Newman still had his Royal Society grant virtually intact, and mooted the idea that Alan should take an appointment at Manchester to direct the computer construction there instead.
紐曼仍然擁有皇家學會的資助，而且他提出，圖靈應該來曼徹斯特，指導計算機的建造任務。Alan did not decide immediately, but in March Newman asked his university to create a new position, with a salary paid from the computer fund, but with the status of Reader.
圖靈沒有立刻決定，但在3月時，紐曼就向學校提出，要設立一個新的職位，工資從計算機的研究資金中支出，級別在副教授和教授之間。The prospect of getting his hands on a computer after all was very attractive. But so was life at Cambridge, the nearest he had to a home.
儘管計算機方面的工作仍有巨大的吸引力，但是對圖靈來說，劍橋纔是最像家的地方。He joined the Moral Science Club again, and gave them a talk on 'Problems of Robots' on 22 January. (That Czech word 'robot' had a topical flavour.)
他重新加入了道德科學俱樂部，並於1月22日爲他們做了一場關於機器人的講座。He joined the Hare and Hounds Club, and continued his training, often running to Ely and back in the afternoon.
他還加入了犬兔俱樂部，繼續他的長跑訓練。He tried some von Neumann game theory, and rather laboriously worked out a strategy for a simplified version of poker, slightly improving upon the account given by von Neumann, and also for the Princeton game of Psychology.
他研究了一些馮·諾伊曼的博弈論，並認真地設計了一套撲克遊戲策略，在馮·諾伊曼的基礎上略有一些提高。
