Wartime notes of Bletchley Park's Alan Turing saved

25 Feb 2011

Wartime notes of Bletchley Park's Alan Turing saved
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The wartime notes of Alan Turing, the Bletchley Park code breaker, have 
been saved for the nation after a successful public fund-raising campaign.

By Peter Hutchison 8:42AM GMT 

The collection of handwritten papers chronicle the work of the 
mathematician dubbed "the father of modern computer science".

Campaigners stepped in when the papers were put up for auction, raising 
the possibility that they would be bought by an overseas collector and a 
crucial piece of British wartime history would be lost.

But a last minute donation of £200,000 from the National Heritage 
Memorial Fund has saved the papers of the computing genius.

Next year marks the centenary of the birth of Turing, who was one of the 
founding fathers of modern computing and a key figure in breaking the 
German Enigma code...../snip/


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/8346962/Wartime-notes-of-Bletchley-Parks-Alan-Turing-saved.html

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http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/635610