雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(289)

Thus Golla and Grey Walter were the two scientific colleagues thanked by W. Ross Ashby for reading the draft of his 1952 cybernetic book Design for a Brain.

羅斯·阿什比曾向戈拉和沃爾特致謝，因爲他們閱讀了他1952年的控制論著作《腦的設計》的草稿。

The fact that he retained his OBE was itself an interesting detail of the case. The War Office would demand the return of medals from anyone guilty under the 1885 Act. The Foreign Office presumably, took a different view.

他的勳銜仍被保留，這是本案的一個有趣細節。戰爭部認爲，對於觸犯1885法案者，應當撤銷勳銜，但外交部對此持有不同看法。

At the Nuffield Foundation conference that Alan attended, P.B. Medawar had proposed a programme of experiments on male animals, injecting oestrogen in order to reveal the neuro-physiological mechanism through the consequent alteration in behaviour patterns.

在圖靈參加納菲爾德科學基金的一場會議時，考慮到他的情況，P·B·梅達沃提出一項研究計劃，通過對雄性動物注射雌性激素，觀察其行爲模式的變化，研究其神經生理機制。

Rarely can a Fellow of the Royal Society have had the honour of sitting at the wrong end of such an experiment.

很少有皇家學會院士獲得這種殊榮：擔任實驗動物。

The work he was doing was on the application of sequential analysis to economics.

他正致力於序貫分析在經濟學領域的應用。

Although he knew that Alan was interested in Bayesian statistics, he had no idea that Alan had independently invented sequential analysis in Hut.

雖然他知道圖靈對貝葉斯統計很有興趣，但他並不知道，圖靈曾經在8號營房獨立發明了序貫分析。

In a reform typical of the period, 1952 saw a change in American immigration policy from a legal definition of homosexuality (the breaking of a law), to a medical definition.

1952年，美國移民政策發生了改變，對同性戀行爲的定義，從法律層面轉爲醫學層面。

The Immigration and Nationality Act of that year specified that 'Aliens afflicted with psychopathic personality ... shall be excludable from admission into the United States.'

當年修改的《移民與國籍法》特別強調："心理變態的外國人……禁止入境。"