It saved countless lives, but the Colussus project has stayed under the surface of history until very recently. Copeland (philosophy, U. of Canterbury, New Zealand and director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing) has succeeded at getting fascinating narratives of the planning, building and operating of the Colussi from their designers, builders, theorists, codebreakers, testers and operators, and also provides a dozen technical appendices for those who want to dig deeper into the inner workings of what was the world's first large-scale digital computer. This is a paperback reprint of a book first published in 2006. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The American ENIAC is customarily regarded as the first electronic computer. In this fascinating volume, Jack Copeland rewrites the history of computer science, arguing that in reality Colossus--the giant computer built in Bletchley Park by the British secret service during World War II--predates ENIAC by two years. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded in secrecy, largely because the code-breaking algorithms employed during World War II remained in use by the British security services until a short time ago. Copeland has brought together memoirs of veterans of Bletchley Park--the top-secret headquarters of Britain's secret service--and others who draw on the wealth of declassified information to illuminate the crucial role Colossus played during World War II. A must read for anyone curious about code-breaking or World War II espionage, Colossus offers a fascinating insider's account of the world's first giant computer, the great-great-grandfather of the massive computers used today by the CIA and the National Security Agency.
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Copeland's book is a masterpiece. * George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral * Review from previous edition Copeland and other contributors have rightly done Flowers and the Tunny code-breakers proud An engaging book that will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century technology and warfare. * Nature * formidably detailed * Guardian * compelling compilation * New Scientist *
1. A Brief History of Cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park, Simon Singh2. How It Began: Bletchley Park Goes to War, Michael Smith3. The German Tunny Machine, Jack Copeland4. Colossus, Codebreaking, and the Digital Age, Stephen Budiansky5. Machine Against Machine, Jack Copeland6. D-Day at Bletchley Park, Thomas H. Flowers7. Intercept!, Jack Copeland8. Colossus, Thomas H. Flowers9. Colossus and the Rise of the Modern Computer, Jack Copeland10. The PC-User's Guide to Colossus, Benjamin Wells11. Of Men and Machines, Brian Randell12. The Colossus Rebuild, Tony Sale13. Mr Newman's Section, Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey, Dorothy Du Boisson, Eleanor Ireland, Ken Myers, and Norman Thurlow14. Max Newman-Mathematician, Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer, William Newman15. Living with Fish: Breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery, Peter Hilton16. From Hut 8 to the Newmanry, Jack Good17. Codebreaking and Colossus, Donald Michie18. Major Tester's Section, Jerry Roberts19. Setter and Breaker, Roy Jenkins20. An ATS Girl in the Testery, Helen Currie21. The Testery and the Breaking of Fish, Peter Edgerley22. Dollis Hill at War, Jack Copeland, with David Bolam, Harry Fensom, Gil Hayward, and Norman Thurlow23. The British Tunny Machine, Gil Hayward24. How Colossus was Built and Operated-One of Its Engineers Reveals Its Secrets, Harry Fensom25. Bletchley Park's Sturgeon-The Fish That Laid No Eggs, Frode Weierud26. Geheimschreiber Traffic and Swedish Wartime Intelligence, Craig McKayA1. Timeline: The Breaking of TunnyA2. The Teleprinter Alphabet, Jack CopelandA3. The Tunny Addition Square, Jack CopelandA4. My Work at Bletchley Park, Bill TutteA5. The Tiltman Break, Friedrich BauerA6. Turingery, Jack CopelandA7. Dc-Method, Max NewmanA8. Newman's Theorem, Friedrich BauerA9. Rectangling, Frank CarterA10. The Motor Wheels and Limitations, Jack Good, Donald Michie, and Geoffrey TimmsA11. Motorless Tunny, Jack Good and Donald MichieA12. Origin of the Fish Cypher Machines, Friedrich Bauer
Jack Copeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, and has been studying the history of Bletchley Park since 1992.
He is a contributor to Scientific American and his previous publications include Artificial Intelligence, (Blackwell, 1993), Logic and Reality (OUP, 1996), Turing's Machines (OUP, forthcoming), The Essential Turing (OUP, 2004), and Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (OUP, 2005).
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