Bletchley

...all-rounder in the section, astonishingly quick and resourceful". Historians working at Bletchley today consider Wylie "highly significant in Allied codebreaking efforts". In the autumn of 1943 Wylie transferred to work on "Tunny", a...

In this article: Shaun Wylie, Alan Turing, Mathematics, Cheltenham College, Bletchley Park, James Watson, Oxford, and Rhodes Trust

...was an idiosyncratic figure bordering on the strange. A runner and rower of Olympic ability, he used to occasionally run the 40 miles between London and Bletchley to attend meetings. His behaviour and high-pitched voice drew furtive smiles...

In this article: Alan Turing, Suicide, Second World War, Bletchley Park, John Graham-Cumming, Oscar Wilde, and Gordon Brown

...in British computers," said Prof Copeland. After the war Bletchley veterans Alan Turing and Max Newman separately did more work on computers using the basic designs and plans seen in Colossus. Turing worked on the Automatic Computing...

In this article: Tommy Flowers, Alan Turing, World War II, Bletchley Park, Max Newman, and German Army

...book Enigma: the Battle for the Code, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore describes how Good annoyed Alan Turing, the great mathematician and guiding intelligence of the Bletchley operation, by taking a nap on the floor of Hut Eight during his first night...

In this article: Max Newman, Alan Turing, Stanley Kubrick, Mathematics, Luftwaffe, and Bletchley Park

...the ones with greatest historical significance are still standing. This year, Bletchley's contribution to the victory in Europe was officially recognised for the first time. And this month, Gordon Brown issued an apology for the appalling...

In this article: Bletchley Park, Alan Turing, Winston Churchill, Gordon Brown, Suicide, Second World War, and Milton Keynes Council

...Hut 6 section created to solve Army and Air Force Enigma. Herivel, then aged 21, arrived at Bletchley on 29 January 1940, and was briefed on Enigma by Alan Turing and Tony Kendrick. At the time, Hut 6 were having only limited success with...

In this article: John W. Herivel, Enigma, Bletchley Park, Isaac Newton, Mathematics, World War II, Enigma, Christiaan Huygens, and David Rees

...recognition." Heroes of Bletchley included Tommy Flowers, who built one of the world's first programmable computers, Colossus, largely using his own funds, and Dr Alan Turing, who designed the bombe cryptanalysis machines. Flowers received...

In this article: Bletchley Park, Suicide, Tommy Flowers, Alan Turing, WWII, Winston Churchill, and Cory Doctorow

...that needed to be deciphered: An article on the Bletchley Park Web site explains that the machines Mr. Turing helped devise to break the codes were called the bombes and that none of them still exist: Over 200 of the Bombes were built...

In this article: Alan Turing, World War II, Hormone, Simon Singh, John Graham-Cumming, Gordon Brown, British Tabulating Machine, Wikipedia, and Time Magazine

...to help the Allies crack German codes. Colossus was crucial for D-Day operations Although Turing worked at Bletchley and helped create the Bombe that cracked messages enciphered with Enigma machines he had little to do with Colossus -...

In this article: Alan Turing, David Caminer, Official Secrets Act, Cambridge, UK, and Cakes