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News And from cutting-edge tech to vintage techies - some of the surviving veterans who worked on the Colossus codebreaking machine and helped crack the Nazi military's codes during the Second World War talked to... [30 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News At the event, silicon.com spoke to men and women who worked on the Colossus codebreaking machine and helped crack the Nazi military's codes. Naval recruit Doreen Osborne, like many of her fellow Royal Navy Wrens helping... [05 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo During the World War II, Bletchley Park was a codebreaking factory. She said that many of the staff were unaware of the full extent of the codebreaking that took place at Bletchley Park and only knew... [07 Sep 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreaking during World War II. The wartime unit conducted pioneering codebreaking computing work performed... [24 Jul 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The site of British codebreaking efforts during World War II is to get £600,000 from Milton Keynes Council and English Heritage. The two bodies announced on Thursday that Bletchley Park, famous for its role in Allied... [12 Mar 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo The codebreaking computer used in World War II, the Colossus Mark II, and vintage machines ranging from the 1960s' Elliott 803 through to the 1980s' BBC Micro - will sing again as part of the Obsolete project, which is... [10 Mar 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News 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 Park, the former home of Britain's World War II... [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. Still struggling to think of how to reward your hard-working tech team this festive season or just looking... [04 Dec 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
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. Here... [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. Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking... [06 Nov 2008]
Lib Dems banned from automated calling
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations... [26 Sep 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the... [24 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ... [11 Jun 2008]
