English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had previously been involved with ...

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 ...

A plaque was unveiled at the Liss RBL Club on June 27 in honour of Henryk Zygalski, a Polish-born mathematician and cryptologist who helped break the Enigma code with two colleagues. The Bletchley ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

A chess congress has been officially opened by the Mayor of Swindon ...

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