and i met herman goldstein dressed in his ordnance uniform. and his wife, adele goldstein. for some reason, they hired this naive girl who did not even know algebra. and there i was, thrown into this magic world that i think of as a miracle. and after the eniac was introduced, herman and adele invited me to go to princeton with them. for a year, i commuted on the pennsylvania railroad from philadelphia to princeton junction. have any of you -- i'm sure many of you have been to princeton. how many? look at all the hands. did you take the train? he took the train from princeton junction into princeton. i did that for a long time. then solomon volcker, who was a mathematician, was going on a sabbatical to hartford. he wanted someone to stay with his wife. i got the privilege of living in their house a few blocks away from the institute, where i had my own bathroom and my own bedroom. and mrs. volcker took me in hand . i was born a redhead. she told me, you look like a renoir painting and you should wear blue and green. so it changed my life, as you can imagine. just going down

she was hired as a secretary at the age of 16 to work for herman goldstein. when he moved to work directly with john von neumann, he had a very distinguished career. doing far more than being a secretary. she was there for the creation and has traveled to be here for this program. would you please stand up? [applause] you are so tiny, i saw people in the back trying to see you. we are delighted to see you. if you would like to ask some questions of someone who worked directly with the legends please feel free to pass those . and now on to tonight's program. the world inhabited at princeton university and alan turing and john von neumann, and yet george dyson's brilliant new book "turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe", makes it as vivid and relevant as today. indeed, it can hardly be more relevant. the world we inhabit, the cathedral, described by alan turing, is governed, howard powered and driven by new variations on the code that they envision and build. it would be simplistic to say that in john von neumann leiby case, the stories are im