How Alan Turing's secret papers were saved for the nation

From the last Saturday's 'Daily Telegraph'....:


30 Jul 2011

How Alan Turing's secret papers were saved for the nation
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The archive of Enigma genius Alan Turing has at last been secured. Now his 
work is on display at Bletchley Park, birthplace of the computer era.
 
By Sinclair McKay

The closely typewritten pages, with their neat pencil annotations, look as 
impenetrable as a Dead Sea scroll. Yet these documents are windows into 
the mind of a genius who helped to win the Second World War.

This same genius brought the computer age into being, and invented a test 
for artificial intelligence before such a thing had even been imagined by 
his peers. And now, finally, his vast intellectual legacy, in the form of 
his papers, has found a permanent home at the site where, as essayist 
George Steiner wrote, one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century 
took place.

Dr Alan Turing's name will forever be synonymous with Bletchley Park, 
the code breaking centre near Milton Keynes where he and a team of 
similarly brilliant, eccentric boffins and classicists, with the help of 
hundreds of Wrens and Waafs, cracked Germany's Enigma code...../snip/


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