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@[]#COMPUTER ADDS UP AT LAST#THE TURING MACHINE#THE 'BOMB' THE CODE BUSTERS BUILT#THE BOFFINS LAY CHURCHILL A GOLDEN EGG@SCIENTIST TOOK POISON#WHO IS A SECURITY RISK?#COLOSSUS THAT CRACKED THE NAZIS SECRETS#ODD LIFE OF AN ENIGMA#WATCHFUL COMPUTERS ARE KEEN APPRENTICES
More computers were sold in the USA in 1994 than televisions or automobiles#If automobiles had developed at the same rate as computers since the Fifties they would now be matchbox-sized and capable of 1000 miles per hour#The biggest computer in the world is the Cray super-computer. It is capable of performing two billion operations per second#Germany's Enigma machine, which Turing was asked to decipher, was capable of enciphering a message in 159 million million million different keys#At its peak, Britain's code-cracking headquarters at Bletchley Park employed 12,000 people on a round-the-clock shift system decrypting 10,000 messages a day. Each eight-hour shift involved 4,000 workers#After the war Turing began work on ACE, the first large computer to be built in Britain. He believed that his work was the first step in bridging the gap between the brain and the machine#A businessman has invented the "Turing Test", offering $100,000 to anyone who develops a computer which, hidden out of sight, fools someone into believing they're engaged in a written dialogue with a human being, rather than a computer#The code-breaking center at Bletchley Park was so secret that its very existence was kept under wraps by the British government until the Seventies
