Ariel

The computer was organized on two basic principles: that artificial intelligence could be derived from high-speed calculations based on a very large amount of specific information, and that expertise could come only from experience.

Slowly, they were teaching her, like a child, to draw from her own experiences... to make her own conclusions.

She was ARIEL... the most complex computer ever built. Even now, in her "infancy", she was opening up entirely new fields of mathmatics. When - and if - she "matured", her potential was unlimited.

But there were those who wanted her secrets, who didn't care how much money or how many lives were spent in the process. And they were close - dangerously close.