Colossus
The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers
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- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2010
Summary
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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199578146 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199578141 |
| Author: | B. Jack Copeland |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2010 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 155mm x 233mm |
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Critics Review
Review from previous edition: “Copeland and other contributors have rightly done Flowers and the Tunny code-breakers proud” l–6/10/2006
Copeland's book is a masterpiece.'George Dyson, author of Turing's CathedralReview from previous edition Copeland and other contributors have rightly done Flowers and the Tunny code-breakers proudAn engaging book that will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century technology and warfare.‘Natureformidably detailed'Guardiancompelling compilation’New Scientist
B. Jack Copeland
Jack Copeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. He has been studying the history of Bletchley Park since 1992. He is a contributor to Scientific American. His previous publications include:
- Artificial Intelligence (Blackwell, 1993)
- Logic and Reality (OUP, 1996)
- Turing’s Machines (OUP, forthcoming)
- The Essential Turing (OUP, 2004)
- Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine (OUP, 2005)
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