A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of ...

The fate of the world may not hang in the balance this time, but a team of engineers have resurrected Bletchley Park's famous Colossus computer, the World War II code breaking machine widely ...

During World War II, the Nazis used complex codes to obfuscate commands, and cracking those codes was one of the keys to the Allies’ success. This codebreaking was accomplished in part by Colossus, ...

(1) For Elon Musk's AI computer, see Project Colossus. (2) A British computer that was designed to break German encryption codes in World War II. Installed at the historic Bletchley Park estate in ...

A reconstructed World War II-era British computer is trying to crack messages enciphered on Nazi hardware in an event sponsored by the National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley Park, the ...

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the development of Colossus — arguably the first programmable computer ever made — the U.K. intelligence and security organization known as the Government ...

Colossus, the cipher-breaking World War II computer, is to be pitted against modern computing power in a competition organized by the National Museum of Computing. In an event called the "Cipher ...

As the Allied cryptanalysis center during World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the first industrial scale code-breaking effort, enabled by the pioneering work of luminaries like Alan Turing, ...