Day after day, it helped Allied codebreakers read Nazi military communications that were never supposed to be read.
An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.
The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...
Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine played a significant role in wartime communications. This video explores how the Enigma Machine works within its historical context, including ...
Robert Harris's novel about wartime codebreaking has become a handsome, if simplistic, film ...
The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the war. Given the last 80-odd years of ...