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Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 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]
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. The US military has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m to... [27 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
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]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News In an ironic twist, a team from the UK operating a World War II codebreaking computer has been beaten in a cipher-breaking contest by a German. Ada is used for military systems and was created by the US Department of Defense in 1980. [19 Nov 2007]
Army Transformation Drives Biggest Change Since 1939
White Paper Fighting the war against global terrorism while simultaneously transforming itself to confront 21st-century threats is challenging the Army, a top military officer told U.S. Army is in the midst of its greatest transformation since the period just... [14 Feb 2005]
Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario
White Paper During World War II, the U.S.military's extensive planning for the occupation of Germany was a major factor in achieving long-term strategic objectives after the war was won. As the possibility of war with Iraq looms on the horizon, it is important... [27 Dec 2004]
The Future of the Australian-U.S. Security Relationship
White Paper The war on terrorism has elevated the U.S.Australian partnership to a position of strategic significance unmatched since World War II. But it is important for the United States to understand the limits of Australian military power and the nature of... [27 Dec 2004]
American Deterrence Theory and Homeland Defense
White Paper Most Americans have come to terms with the fact that their homeland has not been physically secure since World War II. For a larger number of people, coping with this basic threat to the homeland has instead involved some rough-and-ready... [27 Dec 2004]
English Channel web haven sunk?
News HavenCo is located on a rusting, basketball-court-size fortress erected by the British military during World War II to shoot down Nazi aircraft. The name of the company was derived from the concept of a safe haven from governments around the world... [05 Aug 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Transmeta versus Intel, HavenCo, and Chinese walls come tumbling down
Comment The location is in fact a long defunct World War II military outpost, which was previously used as the home of a UK pirate radio station in the 1960s. The scheme was simply to control all the access points to the World Wide Web and hence block... [12 Jun 2000]
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