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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 23 February 2006
- ISBN 9780192840554
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 242x162x43 mm
- Weight 901 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp half-tone plates, numerous figures 0
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Short description:
Shrouded in secrecy until very recently, Colossus was the world's first fully-functioning electronic computer, built during the Second World War and used at Bletchley Park to crack the codes of high-level Nazi communications.
This book contains fascinating accounts of Colossus, of code-breaking, and of the extraordinary role played by the staff of Bletchley Park in WWII - including personal recollections by those who designed and built Colossus, recently declassified information, and historical essays considering its impact on the generations of computing technology that followed.
Long description:
At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers.
This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded in secrecy, largely because the codes that were employed remained in use by the British security services until a short time ago. This book has only become
possible due to the recent declassification in the US of wartime documents.
With an introductory essay on cryptography and the history of code-breaking by Simon Singh, this book reveals the workings of Colossus and the extraordinary staff at Bletchley Park through personal accounts by those who lived and worked with the computer. Among them is the testimony of Thomas Flowers, who was the architect of Colossus and whose personal account, written shortly before he died, is published here for the first time. Other essays consider the historical importance of this
remarkable machine, and its impact on the generations of computing technology that followed.
An engaging book that will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century technology and warfare.
Table of Contents:
A Brief History of Cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park
How It Began: Bletchley Park Goes to War
The German Tunny Machine
Colossus, Codebreaking, and the Digital Age
Machine Against Machine
D-Day at Bletchley Park
Intercept!
Colossus
Colossus and the Rise of the Modern Computer
The PC-User's Guide to Colossus
Of Men and Machines
The Colossus Rebuild
Mr Newman's Section
Max Newman-Mathematician, Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer
Living with Fish: Breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery
From Hut 8 to the Newmanry
Codebreaking and Colossus
Major Tester's Section
Setter and Breaker
An ATS Girl in the Testery
The Testery and the Breaking of Fish
Dollis Hill at War
The British Tunny Machine
How Colossus was Built and Operated-One of Its Engineers Reveals Its Secrets
Bletchley Park's Sturgeon-The Fish That Laid No Eggs
Geheimschreiber Traffic and Swedish Wartime Intelligence
Timeline: The Breaking of Tunny
The Teleprinter Alphabet
The Tunny Addition Square
My Work at Bletchley Park
The Tiltman Break
Turingery
Dc-Method
Newman's Theorem
Rectangling
The Motor Wheels and Limitations
Motorless Tunny
Origin of the Fish Cypher Machines
