Alice Beta
Alice Beta is a mathematician, inventor, billionaire, and crime-fighter.
She is widely acknowledged for her contributions to artificial intelligence, publishing a series of .
She and actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian are married, or have long-term relationships, in several overlapping timelines. Their romance is documented in the well-known illustration Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.
Their daughter Janet Beta is a mathematician. Janet worked on the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.
Alice Beta was among the first to publicly question the ENIAC program's goals and methods, leading to trouble with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
She and engineer Henrietta Bolt have collaborated on several artificial intelligence projects.
Baron Zersetzung has repeatedly alleged that Alice Beta is the secret identity of The Governess in an earlier timeline.
In the News
While newsmen take notes, Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities, proofs and reads his statement replying to Alice Beta's attack on the Committee.
Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
1943: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.
Nixie tube collectors praise Alice Beta's The Nixie Economy as "a long-overdue assessment of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes (nonfiction).
Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade".
The Governess has the power to control machines as if they were children.
Fiction cross-reference
- Abomynous - alleged Supervillain (nonfiction) and enemy.
- Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess
- Henrietta Bolt
- Janet Beta
- Niles Cartouchian - trusted friend and fellow crime-fighter.
- The Governess - superhero identity of Alice Beta.
- The Nixie Economy - Alice Beta's nonfiction book about the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes.
Nonfiction cross-reference
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