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Photo The huts at Bletchley Park - which houses the National Museum of Computing and formerly played home to WWII codebreakers - are shown to be in a bad state of repair in this photo story. The... [02 Jun 2009]
Museum of Computing gets new home
News The good news follows last week's blow to Bletchley Park, home to The National Museum of Computing, after the government refused a request for more funding to support the site while restoration work is... [26 May 2009]
Funding snub for historic Bletchley Park
News The government has refused to stump up more cash to help Bletchley Park stay afloat until the museum can support itself. Other Lords echoed Baroness McIntosh's calls for more government cash for... [19 May 2009]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo But today hut six, seen here, and hut three at Bletchley Park are rotting and boarded up after decades of neglect. After the codebreakers departed following World War II, Bletchley... [11 May 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo In the concert, musician Matthew Applegate (shown here) - aka Pixelh8 - fused the sounds produced by early computer hardware into tunes at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, home of the World War II... [07 Apr 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The two bodies announced on Thursday that Bletchley Park, famous for its role in Allied codebreaking during WWII, will receive the funds over the next three years. Speaking to silicon.com sister site... [12 Mar 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo In March musician Matthew Applegate, aka Pixelh8, will fuse the simple sounds produced by early computer hardware into tonal tunes in two concerts at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, home of the World... [10 Mar 2009]
Human robots, Android Magic and classic radar tech
Photo The classic radar tech that kept the airspace over southern England safe for decades was back in action last month at The National Museum of Computing, housed at the WWII code-breaking centre Bletchley... [02 Mar 2009]
Photos: Classic Iris radar gets vision back
Photo The tech that kept the airspace over southern England safe for decades is back in action at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), at WWII code-breaking centre Bletchley Park. For 25 years the... [16 Feb 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News Bletchley Park Colossus In September, silicon.com took a look at the world's first electronic codebreaking computer, Colossus, as part of a series of exclusive videos exploring Bletchley... [12 Dec 2008]
Photos: Xmas presents for the techie who has everything
Photo First up, for the would-be codebreaker: a pocket version of the Enigma codebreaking machine from Bletchley Park. Photo credit: Bletchley Park Still struggling to think... [04 Dec 2008]
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Photo World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high command.... [13 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park is to receive a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley Park turns back time Bletchley... [06 Nov 2008]
Voice biometrics, war tech and the history of computing
News In September silicon.com had an exclusive look through the treasure trove of historical technology in the National Museum of Computing at the home of the World War II codebreakers, Bletchley Park.... [08 Oct 2008]
Hugh Loebner
AS Profile Bletchley Park code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing came up with the test as a result of his belief that machines should be able to think - something known as natural language processing. Hugh... [07 Oct 2008]
