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<p class="MsoNormal">Fascinating, at Los Alamos our streets are named after islands that don’t exist anymore.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 3:30 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Schmitt, Martin" <martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de>, "members@lists.sigcis.org" <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Vint Hill Farms, VA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not quite computing names but CERN, the huge high-energy physics research lab where the Web was created, has a lot of streets named after physicists – Einstein Drive, Rutherford Way, and so on as I recall. It also has a long and significant
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<p class="MsoNormal">An under-appreciated sacred site in computing is the Dollis Hill Post Office research station in North London, where Churchill had a communications bunker, Tommy Flowers and his team worked on Colossus, ERNIE was created to generate lottery
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415 282 6868 | Zoom<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">901 292 1071</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The quarter of the computer pioneers! The story of the area formerly used by state surveillance reminds me a little bit of the bunker sold by the German military to a Dutch business man to operate his dark net activities in the German province: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Cold War left us with some fascinating infrastructure around.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In Germany, many streets are named after Konrad Zuse by the way. To my knowledge, none of them crosses a Gottfried Leibniz Street.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Zuletzt erschienen: Leslie, Christopher und Martin Schmitt (eds.): Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe, Cham: Springer International Publishing 2019 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 549), <a href="https://www.springer.com/978-3-030-29159-4">https://www.springer.com/978-3-030-29159-4</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I wrote about this a few years ago, but many of you haven't heard of this. Vint Hill Farms was for many years a listening post for intercepting foreign radio transmissions, including some that were of crucial
significance during the Second World War. <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Hill_Farms_Station">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Hill_Farms_Station</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">After it was decommissioned in 1997 the NSA "sanitized" the property and turned it over to commercial and other government uses. <<a href="https://vinthill.com/">https://vinthill.com/</a>>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The reason I mention this is that a housing development on one corner of the property has some interesting names of streets:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Last time I visited, I asked the real estate agents who came up with the names, but they did not know. The property has an extensive web site, but I did not see any clues there
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