History Through Bletchley Park and Computing in WWII

    Alan Turing at Bletchley Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nK_ft0Lf1s
    Alan Turin in italian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZUxJ6rCx4A e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mxeIDw-0s
    BBC: Code Breakers - Bletchley Park's lost Heroes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF48sl15OCg
    BBC: Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23yie-779k
    Brian Randell - Uncovering Colossus. Fascinating talk about the declassification of Bletchley Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl6pK1Z7B5Q
    1937-1944 Bletchley Park - Home of the code Breakers https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/bletchley-park-home-of-the-codebreakers/wRANFg9s?position=0%2C4
    Prof Jim Al-Khalili - Alan Turing lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzKzJGmYq3o
    The Design of Colossus, by Thomas H. Flowers http://www.dragonseggs.com/colossus/The%20Design%20of%20Colossus.pdf
    The Women of Station X at Bletchley Park http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/video-example.rhtm
    Video documentary: "Top Secret Rosies: The Female 'Computers' of WWII" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587359/ (Note: It is available for streaming through Netflix (http://www.netflix.com (verified on July 27, 2012)
    Bletchley Park Web Page: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/machines.rhtm
    Top Secret Rosies http://www.topsecretrosies.com/TopSecretRosies/Home.html
    Lorenz ciphers and the Colossus,Tony Sale http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/index.htm (Note: Sale was the curator at Bletchley who rebuilt it.)
    Bletchley Park Museum Tour http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/museum/
    ACM A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration http://amturing.acm.org/acmtccwebcasts.cfm
    Christos Military and Intelligence Corner - Enigma Security Measures http://chris-intel-corner.blogspot.gr/2012/08/enigma-security-measures.html
    Technical Details of the Enigma Machine http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmatech.htm This site also has a downloadable Enigma simulator. http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmasim.htm
    A paper Enigma machine http://mckoss.com/Crypto/Enigma.htm
    Dirk Rijmenants' Cipher Machines and Cryptology http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/
    Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (Documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Q3Zv582Q0
    Bletchley Park Tour. Includes a demonstration of the Enigma machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEHcJ7CCzg
    From Codebreaking to Computing: Remembrances of Bletchley Park 50 Years Later. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=6p3mhkNgRXs. 1992 interview with Jack Good and Donald Michie.
    The Men who Cracked Enigma (24 min) Part 4 of Hereos and Weapons of WWII (BBC, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoK4i0SU3DA
    Enigma Videos by Numberphile:

    How Enigma works (12min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQ

    Flaw in the Enigma Code (10min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8

History through Modems and Terminals

    "A Beautiful Mind" video clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CemLiSI5ox8
    John Forbes Nash Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnForbesNash
    "John Forbes Nash (A Brilliant Madness)" Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXIfhJ36Iw
    Video: Introduction to the basic use of MTS http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/79576
    Internet Pioneers (who were not available for video taping...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofInternet_pioneers

Further reading

    Turner, Fred. 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago University Press.
    Standage, Tom. 2007. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers. Walker.
    Singh, Simon. 1999. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. Doubleday.
    Kahn, David. 1996. The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. Scribner.
    Levy, Steven. 2010. Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution. O'Reilly publishing, 25th anniversary edition.