In 1910, England's Stephen Wraysford, a junior executive in a textile firm, is sent by his company to northern France. There he falls for Isabelle Azaire, a young and beautiful matron who abandons her abusive husband and sticks by Stephen long enough to conceive a child. Six years later, Stephen is back in France, as a British officer

Taken away from reality in tokyo by this wonderful book. normally it takes me months to read a book but this one i absorbed quickly. every minute that was spare i used to get myself draw back to into it. stories from india with at the end a suprise and amazon has it.

May 2003
(This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern.)
When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would