On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:56 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other > parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to > Bletchley Park from here).
Even Bletchley Park doesn't recognize its own. The real heavy lifting in Bletchley's WWII cryptanalysis was not the Enigma stuff but the cracking of the much more complex Lorenz cipher by Tommy Flowers & crew. I was disappointed in my visit last year to see their building and exhibit as an "oh yeah, you can see that too if you want" outside the main tour. Just a working recreation of Colossus, as if that might interest anyone :( And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they don't share in Bletchley's funding! Wes Kussmaul
