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* The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, by Roger Thurow * The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger, by Leon Hesser * Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo

* Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding-and How We Can Improve the World Even More, by Charles Kenny * Poor Numbers: How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About it, by Morten Jerven.Memorable were the challenges between Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue. Between the end of the 40s and the beginning of the 50s the first articles appeared (with signatures of illustrious scientists such as Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener and above all the aforementioned Alan Turing) that designed algorithms capable of playing. Chess and computers have gone hand in hand since the dawn of information technology. The game of chess proposed by Tom in "Origin" is a tribute to the great chess challenges between man and computer. For further information see Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom The work break raises the question about the future of work and about human-machine interaction. What surprises will AL have in store for us?

In 2003, the American Film Institute placed HAL 9000 in 13th place on its list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time. The test that bears his name is still considered today a valid tool to ascertain whether a machine is able to compete with human intelligence.ĪL also remembers HAL 9000, the supercomputer aboard the spacecraft Discovery in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Arthur C. Philosopher, mathematician and cryptographer.

Number 5 is a tribute to Eagle 5 (which also has a certain similarity with the name Beagle) spaceship of Spaceballs (A 1987 american science fiction comedy film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks).ĪL is a tribute to Alan Turing. The HMS Beagle on her second voyage hosted the then young naturalist Charles Darwin on board, whose work made the Beagle one of the most famous ships in history. The Beagle 5 spaceship takes its name from the HMS Beagle ship.