Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

Rather than producing a simple software simulation, they implemented the entire codebreaking logic directly in hardware using ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE — The role of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing imposes enormous demands on an actor, and Eddie Shields handles them brilliantly in “Breaking the Code” at Central Square Theater. He ...