21.   COMPUTER SEX An artist, a lawyer and a computer scientist are discussing the merits of a mistress.

22.   A century later, Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist, developed a program that could generate simple moves and evaluate positions.

23.   A computer scientist says they could be even more useful if they were more sophisticated.

24.   A federal prosecutor read a statement by David Gelertner, a computer scientist at Yale who was injured when he opened a mail bomb at his campus office.

25.   A computer scientist and a moderate coffee drinker, Siio came up with the idea of blending coffee with technology in a community-building tool for the workplace.

26.   A computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been fired under suspicion of stealing nuclear design secrets for China, although he has not been charged.

27.   A group of men and women with the power to reshape the Internet has gathered this week, yet there is hardly a computer scientist among them.

28.   A presidential advisory group of leading computer scientists concluded earlier this year that new research, fresh approaches and more government money were needed to cope with the problem.

29.   A more formal research agenda will be drawn up by Mitchel Resnick, a computer scientist at the Media Lab who also leads efforts to create intelligent toys.

30.   A number of other computer scientists and engineers said the probability of encountering the problem would vary wildly depending upon what software the computer was using.