— The Imitation Game s an experiment, I am going to ask a student to spend a week in A: locked room. The room is perfectly nice; it has a bed, a light, a desk, some reading matter, oh, and we'll give him some washing facilities too! Every now and then I post some food under the door to keep him going, Pop-tarts and pizza (thin-crust) work well. On the first evening a note is pushed under his door with a symbol on it. The student puzzles for a while, then opens the book sitting on the desk. The book says, “If you get a piece of paper with symbols on it look them up and follow the instructions.” He looks up the symbols and the entry in the book says, “Go to page 44, write down the third symbol on a piece of paper then post it back under the door” He follows the instruction and is rewarded with another piece of paper, this time with a larger set of symbols on it. Again he follows the instructions in the book and posts his answer back under the door. This goes on for several days. He is somewhat bemused, but it passes the time, and he diligently looks up the symbols and performs all the complicated actions as instructed. Meanwhile, I meet our new Chinese graduate student and explain to her she needs to interview a potential translator for the department. He has just come in from Hong Kong and there is a health scare, so we have quarantined him in the lab room. He is bored and I have some paper for writing messages. She writes “hello” in Chinese on a piece of paper and posts it under the door. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015755