A missing message from rogue mathematician Alan Turing surfaces as part of the celebrations for his 100th birthday. In code, it provides the key to a century old puzzle that, if solved ...

Three feature men - Winston Churchill on the £5 note, JMW Turner on the ... World War Two to break the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park. Although Turing was, among other accomplishments ...

It was high-tech encryption for an important period of time in the mid-1940s, so perhaps you can forgive us our obsession with the Enigma machine ... Alan Turing explained the way it worked ...

Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park. play How Alan Turing ...

The online cryptography competition has been designed to coincide with the launch of the film ‘The Imitation Game’, which tells the real-life story of mathematician Alan Turing, who is credited with ...

The work of Alan Turing, who was educated in Sherborne, Dorset, helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine ... England £5 and £10 notes ...

After September 1939, joined by other mathematicians at Bletchley Park, Turing rapidly developed a new machine (the ‘Bombe’) capable of breaking Enigma messages on an industrial scale.

Often dubbed ‘the father of modern computing’, Turing was based at The University of Manchester after his work with the British Intelligence Service at Bletchley Park during World War II. His ...