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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]
Photo It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. Photo credit: Bletchley Park Trust Photo credit: Bletchley Park Trust
[16 Nov 2007]
Photo Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. Codebreakers at Bletchley Park found the code was not completely random and that the correct wheel starting positions could be found by analysing the messages at...
[18 Mar 2008]
News During World War Two, Turing - an anti-war protestor in the 1930s - worked at the top-secret Bletchley Park. Winston Churchill once described Bletchley Park as Britain's secret weapon that won the second World War.
[22 Aug 2002]
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]
Comment The antique dealer is charged with blackmail and receiving stolen goods after the German-made machine vanished from Bletchley Park where Enigma codes were cracked during the war. Enigma codes were deciphered using so-called bombs, developed by Alan...
[21 Sep 2001]
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]
Photo One of the world's first digital computers creaked into life again this month as Bletchley Park's code-cracking Colossus began running for the first time in more than 60 years. In October, the team put the tech through its paces in the rather less...
[29 Nov 2007]
Video Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. The base is now home to the fledgling National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus.
[19 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet An example of this is the work that went on at Bletchley Park to decipher Nazi messages during World War II and one of Bletchley's machines from that era recently came back to life (click here for Bletchley photos) to start cracking codes again.
[28 Nov 2007]
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]
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]
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]
Comment There's probably an obvious few - Bletchley Park home of the WWII codebreakers and Colossus the world's first electronic computer, for example. A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the pyramids and the Taj...
[23 Jan 2008]
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