Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers /
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| Imprint: | Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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| Description: | xvi, 462 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5957925 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh
- 2. How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith
- 3. The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland
- 4. Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky
- 5. Machine against machine / Jack Copeland
- 6. D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers
- 7. Intercept! / Jack Copeland
- 8. Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers
- 9. Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland
- 10. The PC-user's guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells
- 11. Of mice and machines / Brian Randell
- 12. The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale
- 13. Mr Newman's section / Jack Copeland, Catherine Caughey, Dorothy Du Boisson, Eleanor Ireland, Ken Myers and Norman Thurlow
- 14. Max Newman - mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman
- 15. Living with fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton
- 16. From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Irving John (Jack) Good
- 17. Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie
- 18. Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts
- 19. Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins
- 20. An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie
- 21. The Testery and the breaking of fish / Peter Edgerley
- 22. Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, David Bolam, Harry Fensom, Gil Hayward and Norman Thurlow
- 23. The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward
- 24. How Colossus was built and operated - one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom
- 25. Bletchley Park's sturgeon - the fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud
- 26. German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay
- App. A1. Timeline : the breaking of Tunny
- App. A2. The teleprinter alphabet / Jack Copeland
- App. A3. The Tunny Addition Square / Jack Copeland
- App. A4. My work at Bletchley Park / William T. Tutte
- App. A5. The tiltman break / Friedrich L. Bauer
- App. A6. Turingery / Jack Copeland
- App. A7. [Delta][subscript [Chi]]-method / Max Newman
- App. A8. Newman's theorem / Friedrich L. Bauer
- App. A9. Rectangling / Frank Carter
- App. A10. The motor-wheels and limitations / Jack Good, Donald Michie and Geoffrey Timms
- App. A11. Motorless Tunny / Jack Good and Donald Michie
- App. A12. Origins of the fish cypher machines / Friedrich L. Bauer.
