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Budget. $14 million [4] Box office. $233.6 million [5] The Imitation Game is a 2014 American period biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges . The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering ...
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS ( / ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [5] He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation ...
Francis (Frank) Birch, Head of German Naval Section. Judith Irene Bloomfield (worked in Bletchley Park Mansion and Hut 8. Also the Foreign Office intelligence unit in Berkeley Street, London) T. S. R. Boase (art historian) Arthur Bonsall (Director of GCHQ) Elsie Booker, Wren, in photo with Dorothy Du Boisson.
Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval ( Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing. He was succeeded in November 1942 by his deputy, Hugh Alexander.
May 29, 2024 at 9:57 AM. A code-breaker who played a key role in decrypting German messages during World War Two has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Joan Clarke, who was portrayed by Keira ...
Ultra (cryptography) Ultra was the designation adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. [1] Ultra eventually became the standard designation among ...
Brøderbund Software: Heavy on the Magick: 1986: Gargoyle Games: Breakers: 1986: Rodney R. Smith for Synapse: Terrormolinos: 1986: Peter Jones and Trevor Lever for Melbourne House: Amnesia: 1987: Thomas M. Disch: The only entirely non-graphical text adventure ever published by Electronic Arts: Braminar: 1987: Dodgy Geezers: 1987: Peter Jones ...
The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. They were developed by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin. The model name SZ was derived from Schlüssel-Zusatz, meaning cipher attachment. The instruments implemented a Vernam stream cipher . British cryptanalysts, who referred to ...