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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.
[01 May 2008]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Photo Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. At the end of the war destruction of most of the Colossus machines was ordered because of the secrecy around the machines, while the blueprints were burnt in a...
[18 Mar 2008]
whitepaper It was first used over sixty years ago by Britain to identify friend and foe aircraft in World War II. Contrary to perceptions fostered by the recent buzz around mandates from WalMart, Target, Albertson's, the Department of Defense and others, RFID...
[16 Jan 2008]
Photo It was used to crack Nazi codes in the World War II and was one of the world's first programmable computers. One of the world's first digital computers creaked into life again this month as Bletchley Park's code-cracking Colossus began running for...
[29 Nov 2007]
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]
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. In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher...
[19 Nov 2007]
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. It is now being used to crack new messages enciphered using the same system employed by the German...
[16 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Baby boomers - that oversized post-World War II generation identified with free love and rock and roll - are rolling into their 60s and heading toward old age. Boomers are bringing to their online experience, however, a growing list of ailments and...
[28 May 2007]
News World War II bombs discovered in a nearby building site caused one company to evacuate all staff, while another was forced to implement disaster recovery after a cleaner unplugged the main server to use a vacuum cleaner, according to a 2006 study...
[27 Apr 2007]
News The lobby group said the advert contained an implicit claim that ID cards were useful to the implementation of Nazi policies across Europe during World War II, that ID cards had been used to control populations in occupied Europe and were closely...
[30 Nov 2006]
Photo Missile Command is a Cold War classic from 1980 in which players defend cities from the threat of interplanetary ballistic missiles. Pac-Man was another benchmark in arcade gaming, moving away from the space-war style with its hungry little hero.
[28 Nov 2006]
whitepaper It has been around since before World War II. RFID is not an emerging technology. RFID is used everyday in tracking livestock, identifying pet cats and dogs, in car ignition keys as ignition immobilizers for auto theft prevention, for purchasing...
[09 Nov 2006]
whitepaper Since the end of World War II, The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) has played a major role in helping industry understand the critical requirements of uniformed services and intelligence organizations, while...
[31 Oct 2006]
whitepaper RFID, which has been in use since World War II, cannot be considered new by any standards. To understand the clear gap between Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) aspiration and reality, one has to look at the technology's development and growth.
[13 Jun 2006]
whitepaper It proved to be a critical technology during World War II, used by the British Royal Air Force to identify friendly airplanes. At the most basic level, Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a method for wireless identification.
[09 Feb 2006]
News Independent Labour peer Lord Stoddart of Swindon, accused the government of undermining the freedoms won by those who had fought for the UK in World War II, saying the measures had "elements of a fascist state".
[24 Jan 2006]
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