Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced...
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Colossus is a 1966 science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones), about super-computers taking control of mankind...
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Shadow of the Colossus is a 2005 action-adventure game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It takes place in...
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Automatic Computing Engine (redirect from ACE Computer)
computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the years prior with the secret Colossus...
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Zuse's Z1 computer, and the simultaneously developed Harvard Mark I. The first electronic, programmable, digital machine, the Colossus computer from 1943...
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Tommy Flowers (category Computer designers)
During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages....
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physical manipulation of switches and plugs, as was the case for the Colossus computer. In 1936, Konrad Zuse anticipated in two patent applications that...
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machines, including doing the wiring and soldering to create each Colossus computer. Bletchley Park was the central site for British cryptanalysis during...
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Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine) (category Computer-related introductions in 1943)
valves (vacuum tubes), and was the predecessor to the electronic Colossus computer. It was dubbed "Heath Robinson" by the Wrens who operated it, after...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
building the more flexible Colossus computer (which superseded the Heath Robinson). After a functional test in December 1943, Colossus was shipped to Bletchley...
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years. The team at Bletchley Park developed Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer. Codebreaking operations at Bletchley Park...
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Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk. The company began construction on the computer...
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List of cryptographers (section Other pre-computer)
Bletchley Park worked on Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher and the Colossus computer. Consuelo Milner, US, crytopgraher for the Naval Applied Science Lab...
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challenging to decrypt that even with the assistance of the high speed Colossus computer, the messages could not be read until several days later. “Vital intelligence...
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Max Newman (section Colossus)
World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society...
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Look up colossus, colossi, or colossos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to: Any exceptionally...
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The National Museum of Computing (category Computer museums in the United Kingdom)
in Block H – the first purpose-built computer centre in the world, having housed six of the ten Colossus computers that were in use at the end of World...
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reliable. During World War II, special-purpose vacuum-tube digital computers such as Colossus were used to break German machine (teleprinter) ciphers known...
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and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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Tony Sale (category English computer scientists)
computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing. He led the construction of a fully functional Mark 2 Colossus computer between...
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transistor-based computer, 1958 92×103: Intel 4004, first commercially available full function CPU on a chip, released in 1971 500×103: Colossus computer vacuum...
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partially automated, first with Robinson machines and then with the Colossus computers. The deciphered Lorenz messages made one of the most significant contributions...
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methods of the past, through machines like the British Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced...
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decryption and "Ultra"; the Battle of the Atlantic; Erwin Rommel; the Colossus computer; Frank Rowlett and Japan's Purple cipher; Allied Operation Overlord...
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Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic programmable computer built in the U.S. Although the ENIAC was similar to the Colossus, it was much faster...
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Information Age (redirect from Computer Age)
of the first electronic computers, based on vacuum tubes, including the Z3, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, Colossus computer, and ENIAC. The invention...
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Allen Coombs (category Computer hardware engineers)
the principal designers of the Mark II or production version of the Colossus computer used at Bletchley Park for codebreaking in World War II, and took...
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Equipment used to break enemy codes included the Colossus computer. Colossus consisted of ten networked computers. An outstation in the Far East, the Far East...
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Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher (section Colossus)
Tunny messages led to the development of "Colossus", the world's first electronic, programmable digital computer, ten of which were in use by the end of...
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