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Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
News Read their fascinating stories here - including Navy Wren Jean Valentine who was posted to Bletchley Park in 1940, just 18 years old. Another negative came last month in response to the question of whether the UK will... [30 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has paid tribute to the work done by the World War II codebreakers at Bletchley Park who cracked the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany's military. The Foreign Secretary was speaking at... [13 Oct 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 On Sunday these women and more than 100 other veteran codebreakers returned to Bletchley Park, where in 1939 the British began to decipher German military code which was created using the Enigma coder. [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines - famous for being used by the Nazis to protect communications during the Second World War - is to go on display at Bletchley Park. Enigma and other... [17 Aug 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 ZDNet UK on... [12 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 Park. [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 While at Bletchley Park, silicon.com also checked out some classic British PCs from years gone by, revisiting golden oldies including the BBC Micro and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Bletchley... [12 Dec 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. Landing planes with... [08 Oct 2008]
Britain's classic computers: A silicon.com special
News While Bletchley Park may be best known for housing the Enigma code-breaking machine during World War II, the former intelligence facility is still home to numerous tech treasures in the National Museum of Computing. [02 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo The computer is on show at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing. See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and... [02 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Reely good news on video
Comment I've mentioned the video player already of course, and I'm a big fan of all the video we've been publishing from the National Museum of Computing out at Bletchley - the video of the Elliott 803, one of the first... [16 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up The console on display at Bletchley has no screen or keyboard and programming the machine was done initially through the front panel. For the last week or so silicon.com has been busy publishing the results of its... [12 Sep 2008]
Photos: Britain's first business computer
Photo This is the console for the Elliott 803 on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The Elliott 803 was developed in the early 1960s and until 1965 it was the single most popular... [05 Sep 2008]
