IET Lancashire and Cumbria presents:
Cracking the Lorenz Cipher: Tutte, Flowers and the Birth of Colossus More Events
Speaker:
Matthew Wylie
Date/Time:
Wednesday 15th April 2026 @ 6:30 PM
Venue:
Preston
Details:
"This talk tells the story of how engineers and mathematicians at Bletchley Park overcame the formidable Lorenz cipher. You'll discover how Bill Tutte deduced the machine design, how Max Newman and Tommy Flowers turned a problem into an engineering challenge, and how their creation, Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer transformed codebreaking."
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