d*******r 发帖数: 432 | 1 [my comment] it's sad to read how Alan Turing died, and I
was rather surprised at how openly gay he was described in
Cryptonomicon.
from
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39198,00.html?tw
=wn20001003
==================
Computer That Ate Hitler's Brain
by Michelle Delio
3:00 a.m. Oct. 3, 2000 PDT
The world owes a debt of gratitude to a band of British
hackers.
In 1938, England's best mathematicians and scientists were
asked to develop a way to crack the Enigma, the code used by
th |
|