Bletchley Park (Abkürzung B.P.) ist ein Landsitz in der englischen Stadt Bletchley in der Grafschaft Buckinghamshire und liegt etwa 70 km nordwestlich von London. B.P. war die zentrale militärische Dienststelle, die sich im Zweiten Weltkrieg erfolgreich mit der Entzifferung des deutschen Nachrichtenverkehrs befasste. Heute befindet sich dort das Nationale Computer …

Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing.He was succeeded in November 1942 by his deputy, Hugh Alexander.Patrick Mahon succeeded …

Colossus was the world's first programmable electronic digital computer. British code breakers used Colossus for cryptanalysis during World War II.. These messages were sent between the German High Command, and army field commanders. Reading these messages helped the Allies to win the war.. Codebreaker Max Newman worked at the Government Code and Cypher School …

Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and …

Copeland, B. Jack biên tập (2006), Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-284055-4; Eckert, J. Presper, The ENIAC (in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, (editors), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980, pp. 525 ...