- The limestone cliffs of the 760-acre Trombetta Canyon NAP provide habitat for two rare plant species, yellow mountain avens and Steller’s rockbrake. The site includes extensive scrub-shrub and emergent wetlands at its lower end, providing habitat for a third rare plant, sage willow. Trombetta Canyon is isolated from disturbance by its location and topography, and offers protected habitat for a variety of other organisms-particularly those that may be adapted to limestone substrates.
- Alan Turing (plato.standford.edu)
Alan Turing (1912–1954) never described himself as a philosopher, but his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” is one of the most frequently cited in modern philosophical literature. It gave a fresh approach to the traditional mind-body problem, by relating it to the mathematical concept of computability he himself had introduced in his 1936–7 paper “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” His work can be regarded as the foundation of computer science and of the artificial intelligence program.