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  2. List of people associated with Bletchley Park - Wikipedia

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    Betty Webb (code breaker) served in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) then moved to Bletchley Park to help decipher Japanese and German encrypted messages; Neil Leslie Webster, major in SIXTA, signals intelligence and codebreaking

  3. Codebreaker (film) - Wikipedia

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    Codebreaker, also known as Britain's Greatest Codebreaker, is a 2011 television docudrama aired on Channel 4 about the life of Alan Turing.The film had a limited release in the U.S. beginning on 17 October 2012.

  4. Colossus computer - Wikipedia

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    It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. [4] (Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.) [5] The prototype, Colossus Mark 1, was shown to be working in December 1943 and was in use at Bletchley Park by early 1944. [1]

  5. Breaking the Code - Wikipedia

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    Breaking the Code is a 1986 British play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality.

  6. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.

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  9. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

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    Coined the term "digital". Discovered the reflected binary code known as Gray code. Excess-3 code is named after him as well (Stibitz code). 1982 Stonebraker, Michael: Revolutionized the field of database management systems (DBMSs) and founded multiple successful database companies 1979 Stroustrup, Bjarne: Invented C++ at Bell Labs 1963 ...