"So, let's look for someone with the initials A.M.T. among the teachers and students of King's College in the 30s and 40s." When both pieces of evidence pointed to King's College, Leonard Ethan proposed his own opinion.
Such work would have been very difficult in the past, likely requiring contact with the school and looking through dusty archives.
But now, as these schools gradually digitize their records, accessing such public information can be quickly accomplished at home by connecting a computer or mobile phone to the internet.
Assigned a year each, all six people, including the servants, picked up their phones or computers to search for names on the King's College faculty and student list.
"I found it—" About seven or eight minutes later, Madam Lewis suddenly gasped quietly, then turned the computer screen to face those present. "Alan Mathison Turing!"
