Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

UK intelligence agency GCHQ has celebrated its centenary year by releasing emulators for famous code cipher and code breakers used in World War II. Last week, GCHQ said on Twitter that the public can ...

World War II Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing will be the face of the UK's new £50 note, the Bank of England has announced. Speaking at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, governor of the ...

BLETCHLEY Park code breaker Betty Webb left £300,000 in her will, probate documents reveal. She helped Alan Turing decipher ...

Alan Turing, a mathematician and code breaker who deciphered German World War II messages, will appear on Britain's new 50 pound note. The Bank of England made the announcement Monday that Turing, who ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

The British government chemically castrated Alan Turing. Now it wants to say that wasn't quite cricket. Or, rather, it wants to pardon him for the heinous crime of having been a homosexual. As the ...

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