> > I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other > > parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to > > Bletchley Park from here). > > Even Bletchley Park doesn't recognize its own. The real heavy lifting in > Bletchley's WWII cryptanalysis was not the Enigma stuff but the cracking > of the much more complex Lorenz cipher by Tommy Flowers & crew. I was > disappointed in my visit last year to see their building and exhibit as > an "oh yeah, you can see that too if you want" outside the main tour. > Just a working recreation of Colossus, as if that might interest > anyone :( And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they > don't share in Bletchley's funding! > > Wes Kussmaul
True. Even the Enigma stuff seems under funded. And as I was reading this the BBC in the background was busy discussing something about Kylie Minogue's honorary doctorate in health science... :-/ I think I must be autistic because I just dont understand the priorities of most humans... Perhaps that is why it is such a loss when someone I actually could relate to is gone. DMR did give a talk at my university in Sydney when I was there many years ago. I remember he wore a cap with a propellor on it. He certainly will be missed. DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com
