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  Bletchley Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bletchley Park (also sometimes Station X) is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, now part of Milton Keynes, England.
The high-level intelligence produced by Bletchley Park, codenamed Ultra, is frequently credited with aiding the Allied war effort and shortening the war, although Ultra's effect on the actual outcome of WWII is debated.
Bletchley Park is mainly remembered for breaking messages encyphered on the German Enigma cypher machine, but its greatest cryptographic achievement may have been the breaking of the German "Fish" High Command teleprinter cyphers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bletchley_Park   (1719 words)

  
 Colossus computer - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Bill Tutte, a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park, discovered that the keystream produced by the machine exhibited statistical biases deviating from random, and that these biases could be used to break the cipher and read messages.
Colossus was operated in the Newmanry, the section at Bletchley Park responsible for machine methods against the Lorenz machine, headed by the mathematician Max Newman.
It currently is on display in the Bletchley Park Museum in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/o/l/Colossus_computer.html   (2059 words)

  
 Alan Turing: an introductory biography
For this work, Turing was based at the now famous centre at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, which recruited increasingly large sectors of the British intelligentsia.
Newman had played a most important part at Bletchley Park after 1942 and had organised a section using the most sophisticated electronic machinery; he was also fully acquainted with Turing's logical ideas.
At Manchester he had rapidly recruited both Royal Society funding and top-rank engineers, and by June 1948 a tiny version of the universal machine principle was working there — in marked contrast to the lack of progress at the NPL.
www.turing.org.uk /publications/lausannebio.html   (2760 words)

  
 SEP: The Modern History of Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Colleagues at Bletchley Park recall numerous off-duty discussions with him on the topic, and at one point Turing circulated a typewritten report (now lost) setting out some of his ideas.
At Bletchley Park Turing illustrated his ideas on machine intelligence by reference to chess.
This new cipher machine, code-named ‘Tunny’ by Bletchley Park, was broken in April 1942 and current traffic was read for the first time in July of that year.
www.science.uva.nl /~seop/entries/computing-history   (6955 words)

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