Fwd: Bletchley Park update and new Colossus video
Hi Tom: I have Sue Black's permission to forward this to you for SIGCIS. Cheers Brian Begin forwarded message:
From: Sue Black <s.black@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: 9 March 2012 01:32:41 GMT Subject: Bletchley Park update and new Colossus video
Dear all,
Google have made a really lovely, poignant film about Tommy Flowers and Colossus, I urge you all to watch it. It features several of the people that worked with him at the time and really evokes for me the same feelings that I get when I go to Bletchley Park. The people working there did such amazing things, shortening the war by 2 years and on the whole got no credit at all.
Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c
Related blogpost: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/remembering-colossus-worlds-first.htm...
While I'm on the subject of Bletchley....The Turing exhibition was officially opened this week by James May of Top Gear fame. It is a lovely and interesting exhibition including Turing's school reports, Turing's teddy bear and a copy of a letter from out very own Professor Brian Randell to Turing's mother. If you get the opportunity please go to see it, and take your staff, and students, friends, neighbours etc. ;))
Prof John Clark at York kindly invited me and the former and current CEOs of Bletchley Park (Iain Standen and Simon Greenish) to University of York last night to give a public lecture entitled: Did Twitter save Bletchley Park? About 200 people turned out on a windy night, they were a lovely audience :)) When we asked them at the end of our talk to decide whether Twitter did save Bletchley Park they said YES! :)) Slides from our talk are here:
http://www.slideshare.net/blackse/did-twitter-save-bletchley-park
I can't remember if I told you all but Google gave Bletchley Park £500k at the end of last year, and I'm hoping that the relationship between them will carry on developing. I'm going to go to the US as part of a fundraising tour with Sir John Scarlett, new Bletchley Park Trust Chair, later this year which should be fun and will hopefully bring in new streams of revenue :))
I think that's all for now, please do watch the film, it is very evocative.
Take care all
Sue
-- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell
Thanks for this forward, Brian. It's nice to see a high-profile company taking an interest in British computing history. I'll try to put something up on the sigcis blog about this-- it's no doubt a developing story that people will be interested in following. Best, Marie _______________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History of Technology Lewis Department of the Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL mhicks1@iit.edu www.mariehicks.net On Mar 11, 2012, at 16:32, Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Tom:
I have Sue Black's permission to forward this to you for SIGCIS.
Cheers
Brian
Begin forwarded message:
From: Sue Black <s.black@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: 9 March 2012 01:32:41 GMT Subject: Bletchley Park update and new Colossus video
Dear all,
Google have made a really lovely, poignant film about Tommy Flowers and Colossus, I urge you all to watch it. It features several of the people that worked with him at the time and really evokes for me the same feelings that I get when I go to Bletchley Park. The people working there did such amazing things, shortening the war by 2 years and on the whole got no credit at all.
Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c
Related blogpost: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/remembering-colossus-worlds-first.htm...
While I'm on the subject of Bletchley....The Turing exhibition was officially opened this week by James May of Top Gear fame. It is a lovely and interesting exhibition including Turing's school reports, Turing's teddy bear and a copy of a letter from out very own Professor Brian Randell to Turing's mother. If you get the opportunity please go to see it, and take your staff, and students, friends, neighbours etc. ;))
Prof John Clark at York kindly invited me and the former and current CEOs of Bletchley Park (Iain Standen and Simon Greenish) to University of York last night to give a public lecture entitled: Did Twitter save Bletchley Park? About 200 people turned out on a windy night, they were a lovely audience :)) When we asked them at the end of our talk to decide whether Twitter did save Bletchley Park they said YES! :)) Slides from our talk are here:
http://www.slideshare.net/blackse/did-twitter-save-bletchley-park
I can't remember if I told you all but Google gave Bletchley Park £500k at the end of last year, and I'm hoping that the relationship between them will carry on developing. I'm going to go to the US as part of a fundraising tour with Sir John Scarlett, new Bletchley Park Trust Chair, later this year which should be fun and will hopefully bring in new streams of revenue :))
I think that's all for now, please do watch the film, it is very evocative.
Take care all
Sue
-- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell
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Hi Marie: You might also like to look at the original BBC TV documentary, part of the (1977?) series "The Secret War", which first revealed the Colossus to the general public, that is now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE4F4FB6E2BA4073A&feature=plcp The book of the series is: B. Johnson. The Secret War, London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1978, 352 pp. Cheers Brian On 11 Mar 2012, at 22:11, Marie Hicks wrote:
Thanks for this forward, Brian.
It's nice to see a high-profile company taking an interest in British computing history.
I'll try to put something up on the sigcis blog about this-- it's no doubt a developing story that people will be interested in following.
Best,
Marie
_______________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History of Technology Lewis Department of the Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL mhicks1@iit.edu www.mariehicks.net
On Mar 11, 2012, at 16:32, Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Tom:
I have Sue Black's permission to forward this to you for SIGCIS.
Cheers
Brian
Begin forwarded message:
From: Sue Black <s.black@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: 9 March 2012 01:32:41 GMT Subject: Bletchley Park update and new Colossus video
Dear all,
Google have made a really lovely, poignant film about Tommy Flowers and Colossus, I urge you all to watch it. It features several of the people that worked with him at the time and really evokes for me the same feelings that I get when I go to Bletchley Park. The people working there did such amazing things, shortening the war by 2 years and on the whole got no credit at all.
Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c
Related blogpost: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/remembering-colossus-worlds-first.htm...
While I'm on the subject of Bletchley....The Turing exhibition was officially opened this week by James May of Top Gear fame. It is a lovely and interesting exhibition including Turing's school reports, Turing's teddy bear and a copy of a letter from out very own Professor Brian Randell to Turing's mother. If you get the opportunity please go to see it, and take your staff, and students, friends, neighbours etc. ;))
Prof John Clark at York kindly invited me and the former and current CEOs of Bletchley Park (Iain Standen and Simon Greenish) to University of York last night to give a public lecture entitled: Did Twitter save Bletchley Park? About 200 people turned out on a windy night, they were a lovely audience :)) When we asked them at the end of our talk to decide whether Twitter did save Bletchley Park they said YES! :)) Slides from our talk are here:
http://www.slideshare.net/blackse/did-twitter-save-bletchley-park
I can't remember if I told you all but Google gave Bletchley Park £500k at the end of last year, and I'm hoping that the relationship between them will carry on developing. I'm going to go to the US as part of a fundraising tour with Sir John Scarlett, new Bletchley Park Trust Chair, later this year which should be fun and will hopefully bring in new streams of revenue :))
I think that's all for now, please do watch the film, it is very evocative.
Take care all
Sue
-- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell
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-- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell
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