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SUMMARY:Colossus: The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing - Chris 
 Shore
DTSTART:20151103T181500Z
DTEND:20151103T191500Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Carlotti
DESCRIPTION:The achievements of teams at Bletchley Park in breaking the Ge
 rman Enigma code during WW2 are well known and have been in the public dom
 ain for some time. What is lesser known\, and what still remains somewhat 
 shrouded in secrecy\, is the development of the Colossus computing engine 
 to break the Lorenz cipher used by the Nazi High Command. The details of t
 his have only emerged relatively recently and have rewritten the history o
 f the development of electronic computing in the 20th century. Cambridge m
 athematicians feature strongly in the story\, most notably trinity's own B
 ill Tutte. This lecture will describe the development of the Colossus mach
 ine and the problem which it was built to solve.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre
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