Re: Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma

Glenn

The Bombe Rebuild Team at Bletchley Park provided drawings and advice to 
the firm who made the 'mock up' Bombes used in the film Enigma. Six were 
made but only five ended up at Bletchley Park

The other one was apparently delivered to Mick Jagger but we heard no 
more of it.

As you know Mick Jagger was somehow involved in financing the film.

Regards


>I'm seriously impressed by Mick Jagger's generosity. I would never have 
>believed that he would own an Enigma Machine.
>
>Hat's off! Sir Mick!
>
>Cheers
>
>Glenn Geers
>Technology Director, ITL
>NICTA
>
>
>On 21/06/2012, at 22:00, Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wednesday 20 June 2012 17.48 BST
>>
>> Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma
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>> Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing's legacy comes to life in a
>> Science Museum exhibition
>>
>>    Maev Kennedy
>>
>> A German Enigma coding machine on loan from Mick Jagger and a 1950
>> computer with less calculating power than a smartphone but which was once
>> the fastest in the world, are among the star objects in a new exhibition
>> at the Science Museum devoted to the short, brilliant life and tragic
>> death of the scientist Alan Turing.
>>
>> "We are in geek heaven," his nephew Sir John Turing said, surrounded by
>> pieces of computing history which are sacred relics to Turing's admirers,
>> including a computer-controlled tortoise that had enchanted the scientist
>> when he saw it at the museum in the 1951 Festival of Britain. "This
>> exhibition is a great tribute to a very remarkable man," Turing said.
>>
>> "My father was in awe of him, the word genius was often used in speaking
>> of him in the family," he said, "but he also spoke of his eccentricity, of
>> how he cycled to work at Bletchley wearing a gas mask to control his
>> hayfever so the local people he passed dreaded that a gas attack was
>> imminent."
>>
>> The exhibition, marking the centenary of Turing's birth, tackles both the
>> traumatic personal life and the brilliant science of the man who was a key
>> member of the codebreaking team at Bletchley Park, and devised the Turing
>> Test which is still the measure of artificial intelligence..../snip/
>>
>>
>> 
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/20/alan-turing-science-museu
>>m-exhibition
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>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/jun/20/codebreaker-alan-tu
>>ring-science-museum-video
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>> http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx
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