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- Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12158055/Polish-codebreakers-cracked-Enigma-before-Alan-Turing.html 84 comments
- Joan Clarke, Woman Who Cracked Enigma with Alan Turing http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29840653 27 comments
- Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma https://www.westword.com/news/alan-turing-enigma-british-codebreaker-homeland-security-colorado-11996659 42 comments
- The Enigma Machine: How Alan Turing Helped Break the Unbreakable Nazi Code http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/the_enigma_machine_how_alan_turing_helped_break_the_unbreakable_nazi_code_.html 17 comments
- Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12158055/polish-codebreakers-cracked-enigma-before-alan-turing.html 29 comments worldnews
- Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12158055/polish-codebreakers-cracked-enigma-before-alan-turing.html 6 comments europe
- Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing to be given posthumous pardon http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/19/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-posthumous-pardon 6 comments programming
- The Imitation Game - A movie about Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg85ggZSHMw 17 comments math
- The Imitation Game - trailer for upcoming movie about Alan Turing and the Enigma machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg85ggZSHMw 15 comments compsci
- Felt this was relevant here: Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing to be given posthumous pardon (xpost from /r/programming) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/19/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-posthumous-pardon 43 comments compsci
- Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story: A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06149-y 70 comments europe
- British government de-classifies two detailed papers by Alan Turing describing the mathematics behind the breaking of the Enigma codes. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/23/turing_papers_released/ 3 comments science
- ‘Alan Turing law’ unveiled by government will posthumously pardon thousands of gay men convicted of historic offences: The Enigma codebreaker's great neice says Government decision is 'absolutely tremendous' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/alan-turing-law-government-pardon-rachel-barnes-historic-crimes-a7370621.html 2215 comments worldnews
- Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing to be posthumously pardoned for breaking Britain’s defunct anti-gay laws http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/19/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-to-be-posthumously-pardoned-for-breaking-britains-defunct-anti-gay-laws/ 7 comments europe
- TIL: Alan Turing wasn't the first to crack Enigma, it was Marian Rejewski and Biuro Szyfrów (Polish Cipher Bureau) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/polish_cipher_bureau#enigma_solved 43 comments history
- Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story: Polish codebreakers paved the way for Alan Turing to decrypt German messages in the Second World War. Joanne Baker commends a gripping tale. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06149-y 147 comments history
- For simple decisions, neurons in the brain apply the same statistical trick used by Alan Turing to help break the Nazi Enigma code. http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/02/19/brain-makes-decisions-method-used-break-ww2-enigma-code/ 3 comments science
- Alan Turing, the World War II Enigma codebreaker who took his own life after being convicted of gross indecency under anti-homosexuality legislation, is to be given a posthumous pardon by UK government http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/19/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-posthumous-pardon 51 comments history
- Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who took his own life after being convicted of gross indecency under anti-homosexuality legislation, is to be given a posthumous pardon http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/19/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-posthumous-pardon 909 comments worldnews
- Two Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by the UK government's communications headquarters (GCHQ); it is believed Turing wrote the papers while at Bletchley Park working on breaking German Enigma codes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17771962 9 comments netsec
- Death of British mathematician and logician, Alan Turing. He was a pioneer in computer theory and deciphered the WWII Enigma code. Here, Norman Routledge remembers the more personal side of Alan Turing. http://www.webofstories.com/play/52095 5 comments science
- Alan Turing's 56-page handwritten notebook on "foundation of mathematical notation and computer science" is to be auctioned in New York on 13 April. Dates back to 1942 when he was working on ENIGMA at Bletchley Park & expected to sell for "at least seven figures". http://gizmodo.com/alan-turings-hidden-manuscripts-are-up-for-auction-1681561403 475 comments technology
- The new £42m Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, dedicated to the second world war Enigma codebreaker, is to be based at the British Library at the centre of a new Knowledge Quarter, George Osborne announced on Thursday. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/04/alan-turing-institute-big-data-knowledge-quarter-london 14 comments worldnews
- "Turing molecules" Finally discovered. Not only did Alan Turing break the German Enigma and father modern computer science, but he also published a theory on the creation of life in the womb, a year before the structure of DNA was even known. After 62 years, his theories have been proven. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140731145839.htm 197 comments science
- On March 31, 1952, Alan Turing, computer technology pioneer and breaker of the Nazi Enigma code, was put on trial for homosexual acts. Found guilty & ordered to undergo hormone therapy, he committed suicide 2 years later. PM Gordon Brown apologized in 2009. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/march-april-08/on-this-day--british-wwii-code-breaker-goes-on-trial-for-homosexuality.html 41 comments history
- On this day in 1941, German submarine U-110 captured by the Royal Navy. The British captured the Enigma machine before sinking the U-110. Later it is brought to the Bletchley Park where cryptographers including Alan Turing used it to crack the naval code and changed the course of the history. https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0509u-110-captured-enigma-machine/ 12 comments europe
- Yesterday I visited Bletchley Park in England, where Alan Turing developed the Bombe machine and cracked the Enigma code. I thought I'd get a video and show you all what it's like there! It was pretty cool, we got to see his office and a working bombe machine. https://youtu.be/5K4QFfhBd64?t=1m54s 27 comments history
- Gordon Brown has released a statement on the Second World War code-breaker, Alan Turing, recognising the “appalling” way he was treated for being gay. Alan Turing, a mathematician most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes, was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ http://www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2009/09/gordon-brown-statement-on-alan-turing-treatment.html 4 comments worldnews