Jeff, This may be longer and more specifically focused than you seek but definitely check it out---even if you don’t use it---superb hidden history: “Alan Turing at Bletchley Park” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nK_ft0Lf1s Published May 24, 2012
YouTube description: “Computer's multimedia editor Charles Severance visits Bletchley Park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. Turing's ground-breaking work in the 1940s continues to have an impact on computer science as we know it. The Turing test, Turing machine, Turing completeness, and Church-Turing computability bear his name in acknowledgment of his early breakthroughs and influence. In the video, we see the German Enigma machine used to encrypt messages, and the BOMBE mechanical computing system that was designed by Alan Turing to crack the Enigma code. We also see the first electronic tube/valve-based computer called the Colossus that was built to break the more sophisticated Lorenz SZ42 encryption used for Hitler's strategic messages during World War II. We see and hear both the BOMBE and Colossus running as if they were in production doing code-breaking during the war. For a podcast of the associated column, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmGej...<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmGejzDvTA> This video is from the Computing Conversations column in IEEE Computer's June 2012 issue: http://opac.ieeecomputersociety.org/o...<http://opac.ieeecomputersociety.org/opac?year=2012&volume=45&issue=6&acronym=computer>. Visit Computer: www.computer.org/computer<http://www.computer.org/computer>” Cheers, Tyra Grant University of Kansas Libraries [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Pearson Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] Fwd: Seeking film or short clips on history of information processing/computing for generalists Monday challenge? An instructor asks: "I am teaching an introductory course to communication studies undergraduates about major advances in communication and media technology. The course has an historical emphasis and I am hunting for a short film or documentary that introduces for non-technical specialists the general history of 19th and 20th cetury information processing and computing. I am especially interested in approaches that integrate social and cultural questions and analysis, though I realize that may be a tall order for one film!" Thanks, Jeff P. UMich
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