Enigma machine collection recalls computer science victory
April 25, 2018
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines.
The university wants to encourage the study of 19th and 20th century computers, calculators, encryption machines and other materials related to the history of computer science.
"When we look back and we see this, we see who we remember," Andrew Moore, dean of CMU's School of Computer Science, said, adding his students are increasingly asking for courses about the history of the field. "We see people who took technology to...
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