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 ...
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War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...
The UK has unveiled its £50 Alan Turing bank note, and it's appropriately both very secure and a nod to the computer scientist's achievements. Bletchley Park was the site where Alan Turing and his ...