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Alan Turing was nothing short of a genius, and his work saved scores of soldiers during WWII—only for the world to turn its back on him
The world owes so much to Alan Turing. Without his quick and clever mind, the Allied Forces may never have been able to ...
A rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to communicate without interception and translation by opposing nations fetched $106,250 at auction Saturday. The buyer’s identity was not ...
To many, the Enigma machine is an enigma. But it’s really quite simple. The following is a step-by-step explanation of how it works, from the basics to the full machine. Possibly the greatest ...
A collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.
Born June 23, 1912, legendary English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst Alan Turing is best-known today for successfully cracking “the Enigma code,” a sophisticated cipher used to ...
Rare notebooks of Alan Turing’s unpublished code-breaking work during the Second World War have been saved for the nation thanks to a charity campaign. The handwritten notes document Turing’s “Delilah ...
The rarest and non-crackable (until Alan Turing came) technology in the history of World War 2 is now being auctioned. Have you heard about the German's 'Enigma machine'? If yes, history taught us ...
A rare manuscript written by British mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing has gone up for auction along with several other pieces of computer science history, including a fully functional Enigma ...
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