The battle against the ‘unbreakable’ Nazi Engima code shortened World War 2 by up to two years - and paved the way for the computer age. But while films such as The Imitation Game hand all the credit ...

The Nazis sent coded messages through the cipher machines to their ships and U-boats to plan devastating attacks on Allied shipping. The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing, ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...

Joan Mace was born in 1919 and worked at the site where the Nazi Enigma code was cracked A woman who worked at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre during World War Two is celebrating her 106th ...

The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...

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For spy enthusiasts and collectors, World War II's infamous Enigma machine is one of the most sought-after historical artefacts — with only about 300 left worldwide. But for Sydneysider Mike Pritchard ...