I have always been interested in electronics engineering ingenuity used to solve “impossible” problems. One such problem was the task of deciphering the German Army's most secret transmissions during ...

When the story of an invention is repeated as Received Opinion for the younger generation it is so often presented as a single one-off event, with a named inventor. Before the event there was no ...

A reconstructed World War II-era British computer is trying to crack messages enciphered on Nazi hardware in an event sponsored by the National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley Park, the ...

Before transistors or microchips, the earliest computers relied on vacuum tubes — glass bulbs that glowed like small light bulbs and acted as electronic switches. Each tube could represent a one or ...

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place to ...