http://www.silicon.com Results for colossus en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39629409,00.htm Despite being one of the first people in the world to use an electronic computer - Colossus' ability to represent and process information using its array of vacuum tubes paved the way for the logical circuit architecture found in modern computers... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39513413,00.htm Electromechanical machines such as Bombe and Colossus played a key role in cracking the codes, automating much of the laborious mathematics needed to decipher the messages. Colossus was the first machine to break the Lorenz - a complex cipher... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:53:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39509135,00.htm The restoration work is expected to take a year, when Witch will then go on display at TNMOC, which already holds the world's first electronic computer - the Colossus Mk II. Work began this week on restoring what will be the world's oldest working... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:19:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39465606,00.htm The wartime unit conducted pioneering codebreaking computing work performed on machines such as Colossus. A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreaking during World War II. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39451702,00.htm I'm told the maths was so advanced the government was very reluctant until extremely recently to say anything, particularly the work around Colossus. Colossus is widely held to be the first true electronic digital reprogrammable computer. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:40:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39429758,00.htm The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley houses a collection of computers, which includes the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break high-level German codes during the war. This hut once housed codebreakers who cracked the Enigma cipher used... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 11 May 2009 17:26:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39417040,00.htm A concert of electronic music took place in March using machines ranging from the World War II-era Colossus Mark II, to the 1980s favourite: the BBC Micro. March kicked off with a photographic tour through Microsoft's vision of the workplace of the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:14:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39406832,00.htm The National Museum of Computing houses a collection of computers which includes the rebuilt Colossus, used to break high-level German codes during the war. The site of British codebreaking efforts during World War II is to get £600,000 from Milton... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:56:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39399129,00.htm The codebreaking computer used in World War II, the Colossus Mark II, and vintage machines ranging from the 1960s' Elliott 803 through to the 1980s' BBC Micro - will sing again as part of the Obsolete project, which is using early computers to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:17:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39357530,00.htm Bletchley Park Colossus In September, silicon.com took a look at the world's first electronic codebreaking computer, Colossus, as part of a series of exclusive videos exploring Bletchley Park, the former home of Britain's World War II codebreakers. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:26:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39340618,00.htm World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high command. Here silicon.com visits the very finest tech World... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:37:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39338398,00.htm Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39296615,00.htm See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to give army drivers in the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:02:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/0,39024758,39294214,00.htm Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39287123,00.htm That's home of the almighty Colossus, of course. No one does nostalgia like they did in the good old days, conventional wisdom says. But the Round-Up is here to prove that wrong. For the last week or so silicon.com has been busy publishing the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:59:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39285809,00.htm Bletchley Park is famous for being the nerve centre of UK code-breaking operations during the Second World War, and for being the home of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. A campaign will be launched today to ask US tech companies... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:57:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39275910,00.htm The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of Computing is based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. One of the museum's exhibits displays the best of British personal computing through... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:26:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39263792,00.htm Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39249409,00.htm Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39244968,00.htm ♦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ♦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ♦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ♦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ♦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ♦ Photos: The best of Google Earth editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:46:01 +0000