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Police Call Code-breakers To Crack Enigma Riddle
News Enigma was used by the Germans in the second World War to encrypt secret messages. The machine was taken from the Second World War museum Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Enigma machines were used during the Second World War to create the Enigma...
[September 13, 2000, 14:04]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
News The computer was, after all, initially developed during the Second World War to break codes that were too hard for humans and required high speed 'machine intelligence'. It was one of the most celebrated of the Second World War code breakers, Alan...
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
Tech Heroes In Line For 'Greatest Briton' Award
News Alan Turing was both an unlikely hero of the Second World War and a vital player in the birth of computing. Winston Churchill once described Bletchley Park as Britain's secret weapon that won the second World War.
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Estonia's Cyberattacks: Lessons Learned, A Year On
News Earlier this month US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff outlined US plans for a cyber "Manhattan Project" to echo the development of nuclear weapons during the Second World War, partly as a response to the attacks on Estonia.
[May 1, 2008, 14:04]
Extensions Are Bugs, Not Features
Talkback They may be great for folks who want to play feature war games with their own formats, but they are the antithesis of a standard. Standards are about taking the feature war out of the competition game by specifying a standard product, allowing...
[February 29, 2008, 17:28]
Green Light Produces Purple - No, Red! - Faces
Blog Comment I remember - but can't find, offhand - that various man-powered generators have been produced for wireless communications since the second world war, where they were intended for special forces stuck in places where you couldn't just plug into the...
[February 26, 2008, 10:57]
Greaybeards Rejoice!
Talkback Born at the end of the second world war into a world of valves ("vacuum tubes" for the linguistically lattitudinally challenged) we've been privileged to live through the birth and the first sixty years of the "semiconductor era" which has not...
[December 18, 2006, 9:42]
UN Snooping: The Technology Of Surveillance
News We know that since the Second World War, many of the English-speaking democracies have banded together in pacts that allows them to spy on each other's citizens without breaking any laws back at home.
[February 27, 2004, 13:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Who can look at the footage of angry anti-American protests in Palestine and Pakistan and imagine for a second that this new "war" will achieve through military action Bush's stated aim of removing the evil of terrorism from the world?
[September 17, 2001, 14:39]
Estonia's CTO Speaks Out On Cyberattacks
News From a Russian perspective, the Second World War is sacred: we won, we're great, we conquered the fascists. The attack on Estonia began on 26 April after the Estonian government relocated the "Bronze Soldier", a war memorial commemorating an...
[October 24, 2007, 11:47]
Gates Rejects Birthplace Of Modern Computing
News Despite its code-breakers being credited with ending the Second World War at least two years ahead of time, and its innovative history, Bletchley receives no public funding at all from the UK Treasury.
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Drowning In Wireless Spaghetti
News A more complex system evolved from ideas first mooted during World War II by, among others, film star Hedy Lamarr. World War II Negotiating the world of wideband wireless data is like swimming around in alphabetti spaghetti, only somewhat less...
[November 1, 2005, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Following some really nasty Cold War arguments over the naming of new elements -- the Yanks wanted to call stuff LiveFreeUnderCapitalismWithGunsium, while the Ruskies favoured TheRuleOfTheProletariatGlorifiesMarxon -- people agreed to name...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Bringing Colossus Back To Life
News It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. It has recently been used to crack new messages enciphered using the same system employed by the...
[November 19, 2007, 14:10]
Government Help
Talkback Second World War miracles is a great description for what happened there. Andrew - nicely summed up, whatever your views on Gordon Brown! There is some possibility of funding from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, although it might be a...
[May 16, 2008, 8:35]
Asia: Public Enemy Number One For Spam
News The top ten viruses in the past ten months are really old, which suggests the human race isn't winning the war against viruses and spam," said Cluley. Two years ago North America was responsible for over half of the world's spam.
[April 20, 2006, 17:55]
Fiorina: The Quest Continues
News With one year to go, that quest has proven largely quixotic, as Silicon Valley pioneer HP has been buffeted by a brutal price war in PC and printer sales and stiff competition in servers and services.
[September 4, 2001, 9:38]
Enigma Code Machine Swiped From Bletchley Park Museum
News One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the second world war -- has been stolen from the code-breaking museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley Park was the location of Station X, the...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
Code Breakers Secrets Revealed
News The British secret service is set to release reports about the types of computers used to break Nazi encryption during the Second World War, which are expected to rewrite the timeline of modern computing.
[October 2, 2000, 15:11]
Enigma Thief Will Be Found, Says Bletchley Director
News The work done by code-breakers such as Alan Turing -- credited with building the world's first programmable computer -- at Bletchley, also known as Station X, is thought to have helped shorten the Second World War by up to two years by cracking...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
