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  Enigma machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Far from being a single design, there are numerous models and variants of the Enigma family.
A rare Abwehr Enigma machine, designated G312, was stolen from the Bletchley Park museum on 1 April 2000.
In October 2001, Yates was sentenced to ten months in prison after admitting handling the stolen machine and flmailing Bletchley Park Trust director Christine Large, although he maintained that he was acting as an intermediary for a third party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enigma_machine   (6155 words)

  
 Turing Machines
Relaxing this stipulation to allow the tape to stretch infinitely far to right and left results in a new formulation of Turing machines equivalent to the original.
A machine T working on input t is likely to execute far fewer transitions that a UTM simulating T working on t, but for our purposes this fact is irrelevant.
During the second world war, Alan Turing was involved in code breaking activites at Station X in Bletchley Park in the UK.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/turing-machine   (5456 words)

  
 01Glossary
"Bletchley Park" is not a company or organization name, but refers to a location in the United Kingdom where extremely valuable wartime research was conducted in early computing and codebreaking.
The Bletchley Park location was probably chosen originally since it was not far from railways which ran north, south, east and west, and its proximity to a roadway to London (now the "A5").
Bletchley teams also designed machines called "Bombes" which were electromechanical code breaking devices used to discover the wheel settings for Enigma keys, and another machine called "the Baby," which was used to encipher key words to assist in the decryption of Enigma messages.
www.computermuseum.li /Testpage/01HISTORYCD-Glossary.htm   (16322 words)

  
 Harry Potter Fan Zone | Dictionary
: School of witchcraft and wizardry somewhere in the far north of Europe.
Hogsmeade is not far from Hogwarts and has an array of wonderful shops including Honeydukes sweet shop, the Three Broomsticks pub and Zonko's joke shop.
They built a remote castle, far away so that witches and wizards could train in safety.
www.harrypotterfanzone.com /?ID=info/dictionary   (4813 words)

  
 John von Neumann
During 1936 through 1938 Alan Turing was a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton and did his dissertation under Alonzo Church.
Von Neumann invited Turing to stay on at the Institute as his assistant but he preferred to return to Cambridge; a year later Turing was involved in war work at Bletchley Park.
Suppose a fly, capable of flying at 60 miles per hour leaves the first train, flies to the other, turns around and flies back and forth until the two trains collide.
ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/VonNeumann.html   (2003 words)

  
 Defense Tech: You can run... Archives
One problem, however, was the volume and the ambiguity of the data that had already been generated.
Billions are being secretly spent annually for software development, network infrastructure, database management, etc., to build a dreamed for system that will be able to autonomously connect the dots and detect terrorists before they strike.
Once that marker is found, Darpa's proposed 2007 budget notes, the agency wants to know what "the impact of non-genetic factors (e.g., diet, stress, health, age) [have] on the signal." That could help figure out how to "robustly extract" the signal "from a complex and varied chemical background."
www.defensetech.org /archives/cat_you_can_run.html   (11771 words)

  
 AI Overview
We'll find out how AI has evolved since its inception and how far scientists have come to creating the technological brain that's been depicted in science fiction for decades.
They can navigate their way around our world and be linked to extremely powerful computers that will give them a processing capacity well beyond that of humans.
A: Arriving at Bletchley Park in 1942 I formed a friendship with Alan Turing, and in April 1943 with Jack Good.
www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/overview.html   (5824 words)

  
 Swimming pool control with Linux
The true level of sanitizing power is better measured via the oxidation-reduction potential (ORP, which in pool water measures the chemical power of HClO to oxidize contaminants, including the effects of such factors such as pH and cyanuric acid), not mere concentration, yet this is rarely applied or addressed to residential pools.
When measured in a pool using cyanurics, the ORP will be seen to be far below sanitization requirements, even though free chlorine dye tests show the concentration at a recommended 1 to 3 ppm (parts per million).
Reliance on dye tests is another problem area in pool maintenance that compounds the problem of cyanurics.
www.truetex.com /poolcontrol.htm   (11665 words)

  
 The June Press - Links
A critique of the withholding tax directive, showing how the UK will lose out, and why this market will leave the UK and the EU for New York.
Idiosyncratic history of Germany by Englishman, Freiburg University (1933), Bletchley (codebreaker), El Alamain, Burma, Lt. Col.
An acute and penetrating study showing that Euroscepticism, far from being an ephemeral fringe issue, has for 50 years been a cross-party bedrock issue of British politics, by the Director at the Defence Studies Department, Kings College, London.
www.junepress.com /books.asp?RNG=1   (5386 words)

  
 History of Computing bibliography
A little boring, far from a page turner, but otherwise entertaining book that let you rethink that nerds are a creative species but that creative people aren't necessarily nerds.
Based on interviews of still living persons that were involved in the center.
All details as far as they are known by the author are told with emphasis on the Apple II series.
www.thocp.net /reference/library/bibliography.htm   (4988 words)

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