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Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during World War II, is under serious threat from the "ravages of age and a lack of investment" unless the government steps in to provide vital funds. [24 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]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Bletchley Park turns back time For more on historic computing, see silicon.com's coverage of Bletchley Park in photos, video and news here… On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital... [20 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several buildings used by World War II code breakers. Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus code breaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and... [30 May 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News The plea coincides with an appeal from the UK's other computing museum at Bletchley Park, which houses a rebuilt version of the Colossus World War II codebreaking computer, for sponsorship and funding. [01 Apr 2008]
Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
News Leaving technology of the future for a moment, silicon.com took a trip down memory lane to witness computing's pivotal role in WWII espionage with an exclusive peek at Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaking machine. [27 Mar 2008]
BT crash cuts off customers
News The crash occurred in a network switching centre at Bletchley, near Milton Keynes, at one of several sites that handles internet traffic for BT Retail. According to BT, the firms affected were those that happened to be connected through the... [17 Jan 2005]
Bill Gates turns his back on tech Mecca
News The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has turned down a request for funding from the UK's Bletchley Park - reputedly the home of the world's first modern programmable computer and widely credited with helping bring the Second World War to an early... [11 Aug 2003]
Alan Turing: founding computer scientist
News During World War Two, Turing - an anti-war protestor in the 1930s - worked at the top-secret Bletchley Park. At Bletchley teams of cryptanalysts tried to crack coded German military and intelligence communications. [22 Aug 2002]
Dealer admits handling stolen Enigma machine
News The machine was stolen from Bletchley Park museum in April last year, during an open day at the site. Dennis Yates, a dealer in World War Two memorabilia, has pleaded guilty to the charge of handling a stolen Enigma encoding machine. [26 Sep 2001]
