An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

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Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

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The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the war. Given the last 80-odd years of ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

The wartime codebreaker and computing genius was pursued for homosexuality, but nobody – until film-makers came along – accused him of being a traitor Full coverage: The Imitation Game The Imitation ...