A ceremony was held at Chichester cemetery on 1st September to unveil a memorial stone to Henryk Zygalski, one of the most famous Polish codebreakers of WWII. It was attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Dr Arkady…
Bletchley Park Presents Sir Dermot Turing’s new book X,Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma was Broken
Join Dermot and his guests at Bletchley Park on Monday September 10th, 2018 for the launch of X, Y and Z. The afternoon includes opening remarks by HE Arkady Rzegocki, the Polish Ambassador, a presentation by Dermot followed by a panel…
Was Gustave Bertrand a traitor or a hero?
Gustave Bertrand was the head of the Bureau of French Military Intelligence responsible for Signals Intelligence before World War 2. It was his agency that brought in Hans-Thilo Schmidt, the German spy who fed priceless secrets including details of the…
Zygalski’s sheets demystified
On the 22nd July, at the Józef Piłsudski Institute, there was an excellent presentation by Jerry McCarthy, who explained how the perforated cardboard sheets invented by the Polish code-breaker Henryk Zygalski had been used to find the starting-settings of the…
Are humanoid robots going to take over the planet?
Maybe not just yet. But control and containment of artificial intelligence is not an established or popular academic discipline. The research dollars go into learning systems, and especially into the headline-grabbing idea of self-driving cars. So who is watching the…
X Y & Z to be published September 1st, 2018
Drawing on recently declassified archives, the nephew of Alan Turing tells in full – for the first time in English - the real story of how Enigma was broken and celebrates the early work of the Polish codebreakers which lead…
