The National Museum of Computing has unveiled renovations to keep out the rain and smartening up H block as celebrations take place to mark the 80th anniversary of the Colossus II computer.

Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

Volunteers at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, UK, have been constructing a working replica of an EDSAC machine, one of the world's earliest general-purpose computers.

It’s not the only vacuum tube computer on display in a museum; the Colossus replica in Bletchley Park is also very much worth seeing. That exhibit even inspired the design of an entirely new ...

The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer. Various university campuses in Britain and the US were home to first-generation ...

Fiona Bruce describes how volunteers have reconstructed the code-breaking Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. Fiona Bruce describes how volunteers have reconstructed the code-breaking Colossus ...

Turing had previously been involved with the construction of both the Colossus, the electronic computer built at Bletchley Park during WW2, and, later, the Automatic Computing Engine. (SSPL/Getty ...

Fiona Bruce describes how volunteers have reconstructed the code-breaking Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. Fiona Bruce describes how volunteers have reconstructed the code-breaking Colossus ...

Here's your chance to crack ciphers similar to those Bletchley Park's codebreakers faced during World War II. Below, we present three ciphers of different levels of difficulty, from easiest to ...

So Bletchley Park feels like a natural place to talk about ... he later changed his mind and was a consultant for the sinister computer character HAL 9000 in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

During World War II he was recruited to Bletchley Park, where he helped to decode German messages ... Newman had won a Royal Society grant to develop a computer in Manchester, and Turing was to be ...