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Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked the codes used to... [24 Jul 2008]
HybriCore Technology: Delivering End-to-End System-Level QoS Functionality
White Paper Enigma's HybriCore backplane interconnect chipset offers some compelling advantages to system OEMs in terms of density, system power and scalability. However, one of the clear questions that system architects, who are designing the next generation... [18 Jul 2008]
ENIGMA: A Testbed for MPLS and QoS Integration on IP Networks
White Paper ENIGMA is a network configuration and management environment that provides end to end QoS (quality of service) across an MPLS Transport network for UMTS services. As a result, a new concept of transport network is defined, which links the new... [17 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News Bletchley Park cracking Enigma or Brit Berners-Lee inventing the web gives us as much advantage as Stephenson's Rocket gives us a good national rail network. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing... [15 Jul 2008]
Disaster Recovery in the Context of GeoScience Application Projects
White Paper Disaster Recovery (DR) is not a new concept in itself, and there is extensive literature on the subject. However, the incidence of disasters on the activity of Exploration and Production asset teams has not been specifically addressed until recently. [03 Jul 2008]
802.11 Wireless Networking Deployment Survey for Dublin, Ireland
White Paper This white paper describes the results obtained from, and the experiences of, a survey of wireless networking deployment in Dublin, Ireland conducted between May and July 2002. Recent advances in wireless technology, and its standardization, enable... [03 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus code breaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and played a major part in ending the war in 1945. Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from... [27 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers and Colossus - the world's first electronic codebreaking machine - which smashed the codes used by the German Enigma machine. [20 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo These wireless telegraphy huts were used by people like Alan Turing to crack the Nazi army's coded messages, such as those sent by the famous Enigma machine which Hitler believed was unbreakable. Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top... [18 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Isn't that something to do with the Enigma machine and secret service shenanigans? Encryption? Yes and no. Encryption is a well-used method for protecting information but it takes on a whole new role in the modern computer age. [28 Nov 2007]
Virtualising Tiered Storage With SmartMove and Celerra FileMover
White Paper Managing rapidly growing volumes of data is an increasingly important factor in the success of corporations. Their ability to manage critical data in ways that support their business objectives directly impacts their ability to comply with... [23 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Six Sigma
Cheat Sheet Six Sigma? All Greek to me. Very funny. Why the six, why the sigma? It's a statistical term. You'll find 'sigma' in all manner of standard deviation calculations - or, for the less mathematical, the capital sigma is that sign in Excel that adds... [30 Nov 2006]
The McCue Interview: Vodafone CIO and CTO Paul Wybrow
Comment During our interview he will turn out to be open and likeable as we talk - yet to many outside the giant network operator he is an enigma. silicon.com chief reporter Andy McCue this week hands over the writing of the McCue Interview to editor Tony... [07 Sep 2005]
Criminal IT: Why insecurity is implicit in computing
Comment He produced not only an answer to the Decidability Problem but did so with an imaginative technique that showed us how to build automatic mathematicians - computers which first solved the puzzle of the Enigma cipher machines, turning the tide of... [18 May 2005]
