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Posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Academic Convocation Speaker David Leavitt

This year’s Bonnie and Vern Bullough academic convocation speaker is David Leavitt, author of a new biography of Alan Turing, one of the 15 “great minds” presented in Buffalo State’s academic theme. His book, The Man
Who Knew Too Much:
Alan Turing and the
Origins of the Computer,
required Leavitt, a professor of English at the University of Florida, to coherently present theories of math and artificial intelligence.

Leavitt, a graduate of Yale University, is a recognized author of short stories and novels. Collections of his stories have been nominated for three national awards, and one of his six novels, While England Sleeps, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times prize for fiction. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, The Paris Review, Travel and Leisure, and other publications.

Leavitt received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute of Catalan Letters in Barcelona, Spain. Leavitt’s books will be available from Barnes and Noble Bookstore at Rockwell Hall following the ceremony September 21, 2006 at 12:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall.
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