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…
Author: njturing
Volunteer at the Turing Trust
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…
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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…
