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Title:

Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers / B. Jack Copeland and others ; edited by B. Jack Copeland.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xvi, 462 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain.--Government Code and Cypher School--History.
Lorenz cipher system.
World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence--Great Britain.
Cryptography--Great Britain--History.
Computers--Great Britain--History.

Other Authors:

Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-

Notes:

Originally published: 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh -- How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith -- The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland -- Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky -- Machine against machine / Jack Copeland -- D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers -- Intercept! / Jack Copeland -- Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers -- Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland -- The PC user's guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells -- Of men and machines / Brian Randell -- The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale -- Mr. Newman's section / Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey ... [et al.] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Irving John "Jack" Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... [et al.] -- The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward -- How Colossus was built and operated : one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom -- Bletchley Park's Sturgeon : the Fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud -- German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay.

ISBN:

0199578141 (pbk.)
9780199578146 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)441191591

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)