<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks, Jim (and Tom)! I saw this on TV when it aired. It made me recall that in WWII, the US Army Signal Corps was responsible for nearly all of the Army’s information technology (ENIAC, famously, was supported the Army’s Ordnance Ballistic Proving Ground at Aberdeen, MD). This included everything from pigeons to typewriters to radar and cyrptography.<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 2012.Nov.28, at 12:00 , <<a href="mailto:members-request@sigcis.org">members-request@sigcis.org</a>> <<a href="mailto:members-request@sigcis.org">members-request@sigcis.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Send Members mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>members-request@sigcis.org<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>members-owner@sigcis.org<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Members digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. "WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders" (Thomas J. Misa)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:56:38 -0600<br>From: "Thomas J. Misa" <tmisa@umn.edu><br>To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br>Cc: Thomas Misa <tmisa@umn.edu><br>Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] "WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders"<br>Message-ID: <B149464D-DDCA-48CF-937B-B087B9DC2990@umn.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Message to list from Jim Cortada -- see these BBC news items about long-dead pigeon code . . . . TJM<br><br><http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9772000/9772402.stm><br><http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20456782><br><br>On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:54 AM, James Cortada wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">This is way too much fun to ignore. Tom, for some reason, I can't send messages through the siglist, can you do that?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IBM Institute for Business Value <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2917 Irvington Way<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Madison, WI 53713 USA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">jwcorta@us.ibm.com<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">608-270-4462<br></blockquote><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20121128/f93e409c/attachment-0002.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Members mailing list<br>Members@sigcis.org<br>http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members<br><br><br>End of Members Digest, Vol 29, Issue 17<br>***************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>