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Author:   B. Jack Copeland (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780199578146

ISBN 10:   0199578141
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   18 March 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Simon Singh: A Brief History of Cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park 2: Michael Smith: How It Began: Bletchley Park Goes to War 3: Jack Copeland: The German Tunny Machine 4: Stephen Budiansky: Colossus, Codebreaking, and the Digital Age 5: Jack Copeland: Machine Against Machine 6: Thomas H. Flowers: D-Day at Bletchley Park 7: Jack Copeland: Intercept! 8: Thomas H. Flowers: Colossus 9: Jack Copeland: Colossus and the Rise of the Modern Computer 10: Benjamin Wells: The PC-User's Guide to Colossus 11: Brian Randell: Of Men and Machines 12: Tony Sale: The Colossus Rebuild 13: Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey, Dorothy Du Boisson, Eleanor Ireland, Ken Myers, and Norman Thurlow: Mr Newman's Section 14: William Newman: Max Newman-Mathematician, Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer 15: Peter Hilton: Living with Fish: Breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery 16: Jack Good: From Hut 8 to the Newmanry 17: Donald Michie: Codebreaking and Colossus 18: Jerry Roberts: Major Tester's Section 19: Roy Jenkins: Setter and Breaker 20: Helen Currie: An ATS Girl in the Testery 21: Peter Edgerley: The Testery and the Breaking of Fish 22: Jack Copeland, with David Bolam, Harry Fensom, Gil Hayward, and Norman Thurlow: Dollis Hill at War 23: Gil Hayward: The British Tunny Machine 24: Harry Fensom: How Colossus was Built and Operated-One of Its Engineers Reveals Its Secrets 25: Frode Weierud: Bletchley Park's Sturgeon-The Fish That Laid No Eggs 26: Craig McKay: Geheimschreiber Traffic and Swedish Wartime Intelligence A1: Timeline: The Breaking of Tunny A2: Jack Copeland: The Teleprinter Alphabet A3: Jack Copeland: The Tunny Addition Square A4: Bill Tutte: My Work at Bletchley Park A5: Friedrich Bauer: The Tiltman Break A6: Jack Copeland: Turingery A7: Max Newman: Dc-Method A8: Friedrich Bauer: Newman's Theorem A9: Frank Carter: Rectangling A10: Jack Good, Donald Michie, and Geoffrey Timms: The Motor Wheels and Limitations A11: Jack Good and Donald Michie: Motorless Tunny A12: Friedrich Bauer: Origin of the Fish Cypher Machines

Reviews

Listed in SciTech Book News Reading Colossus, a book about the world's first fully electronic computer that was built during the Second World War to crack the codes of high-level Nazi communications, is like reading a suspenseful spy story! It is entertaining to read and at the same time one learns a lot about the history of cryptography and code breaking secrets, decryption and related technologies. Historical pictures along with many interesting charts make the book indispensable to anyone who reviews or writes about the history of computer technology. --Human-Computer Interaction International News

compelling compilation * New Scientist * formidably detailed * Guardian * An engaging book that will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century technology and warfare. * Nature * Review from previous edition Copeland and other contributors have rightly done Flowers and the Tunny code-breakers proud Copeland's book is a masterpiece. * George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral *

<br>Listed in SciTech Book News<br> Reading Colossus, a book about the world's first fully electronic computer that was built during the Second World War to crack the codes of high-level Nazi communications, is like reading a suspenseful spy story! It is entertaining to read and at the same time one learns a lot about the history of cryptography and code breaking secrets, decryption and related technologies. Historical pictures along with many interesting charts make the book indispensable to anyone who reviews or writes about the history of computer technology. --Human-Computer Interaction International News<br>

Author Information

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, and has been studying the history of Bletchley Park since 1992. He is a contributor to Scientific American and his previous publications include Artificial Intelligence, (Blackwell, 1993), Logic and Reality (OUP, 1996), Turing's Machines (OUP, forthcoming), The Essential Turing (OUP, 2004), and Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (OUP, 2005).

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