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    Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
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  • Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced...
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  • Shadow of the Colossus is a 2005 action-adventure game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It takes place in...
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    Tommy Flowers (category Computer designers)
    During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages....
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  • Look up colossus, colossi, or colossos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to: Any exceptionally...
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    Zuse's Z1 computer, and the simultaneously developed Harvard Mark I. The first electronic, programmable, digital machine, the Colossus computer from 1943...
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  • Colossus is a 1966 science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones), about super-computers taking control of mankind...
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    computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the years prior with the secret Colossus...
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    decryption, culminating in the development of Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer. Codebreaking operations at Bletchley Park...
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    building the more flexible Colossus computer (which superseded the Heath Robinson). After a functional test in December 1943, Colossus was shipped to Bletchley...
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    Max Newman (section Colossus)
    World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society...
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    first modern computer (digital, electronic, and somewhat programmable) was built for cryptanalytic work at Bletchley Park (the Colossus) during the war...
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    challenging to decrypt that even with the assistance of the high speed Colossus computer, the messages could not be read until several days later. “Vital intelligence...
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  • Colleges' Association. Tommy Flowers MBE, who designed and built the WWII Colossus computer at the Post Office Research Station[citation needed] Prince Littler...
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    Alan Turing (category Computer chess people)
    of Max Newman, went on to build the Colossus computer, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer, which replaced a simpler prior machine...
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  • physical manipulation of switches and plugs, as was the case for the Colossus computer. In 1936, Konrad Zuse anticipated in two patent applications that...
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  • transistor-based computer, 1958 92×103: Intel 4004, first commercially available full function CPU on a chip, released in 1971 500×103: Colossus computer vacuum...
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  • and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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  • Bletchley Park worked on Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher and the Colossus computer. Consuelo Milner, US, crytopgraher for the Naval Applied Science Lab...
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    machines, including doing the wiring and soldering to create each Colossus computer. Bletchley Park was the central site for British cryptanalysis during...
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    Tony Sale (category English computer scientists)
    computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing. He led the construction of a fully functional Mark 2 Colossus computer between...
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    Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine) (category Computer-related introductions in 1943)
    valves (vacuum tubes), and was the predecessor to the electronic Colossus computer. It was dubbed "Heath Robinson" by the Wrens who operated it, after...
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  • Colossus and the Crab. Five years have passed since the super computer called Colossus used its control over the world's nuclear weapons to take control...
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    partially automated, first with Robinson machines and then with the Colossus computers. The deciphered Lorenz messages made one of the most significant contributions...
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    reliable. During World War II, special-purpose vacuum-tube digital computers such as Colossus were used to break German machine (teleprinter) ciphers known...
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  • The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection (known in PAL regions as Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Classics HD) is a 2011 video game compilation that contains...
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    Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic programmable computer built in the U.S. Although the ENIAC was similar to the Colossus, it was much faster...
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    School at Bletchley Park; they were the direct operators of the bombes and Colossus used to break Axis codes and cyphers. The WRNS remained in existence after...
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  • Tunny messages led to the development of "Colossus", the world's first electronic, programmable digital computer, ten of which were in use by the end of...
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    (computer) Automatic Computing Engine Colossus computer CTL Modular One Digico Micro 16 EDSAC EDSAC 2 Elliott Brothers (computer company) Elliott 152 Elliott 503...
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