Sometimes the most important victories in a war don’t occur on battlefields and don’t involve weaponry. On Wednesday, a very unusual group of veterans gathered at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1943, England appeared poised to become a computing superpower. A team of engineers working at Bletchley Park built something called Colossus, the first programmable, electronic computer. Filled ...

Cracking Hitler’s unbreakable code: How the Colossus computer helped beat the Nazis Your email has been sent Hear recollections from Bletchley Park veterans on how efforts to crack the Lorenz cipher ...

The British secret service is set to release reports about the types of computers used to break Nazi encryption during the Second World War, which are expected to rewrite the timeline of modern ...

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