The Turing Guide

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Banburismus (continued)
tetra 139
twiddling 425
using Banburies 138–9
Barbican Centre (London) 470
Baring, Sarah 192
Barron, Peter 196
Batey, Keith 106–7, 192
Batey, Mavis 97ff, 192
Bâtiment Alan Turing (Paris) 474
Battle of El Alamein 82
Battle of Matapan 104
Battle of the Atlantic 94–5, 167–8
Baxandall, David 262
Baxter robot 320, 322, 324
photograph 322
Bayes, Thomas 415, 418
Bayes factor 418–21
Bayes’ theorem 140, 415, 418–19, 425
Bayley, Donald 10, 37, 187, 261, 471
BBC 467, 470
computer music recording 237,
244–5, 246
Proms 470
radio 13, 47, 356, 356, 462
television 25, 174, 179, 180, 467
World Service 179
BBR&T 107
Becher, Verónica 431, 435
Beckett, Chris 468
Bedford, Duke of 163–4
Beech, Jean 166
behaviourism 301–3, see also Turing, Alan
illustration 302
Bell Labs 233
New York 9, 183, 344
Bell, Alex 339
Bell, Alexander Graham 422
Bell, Gordon 229
Bemer, Bob 178
Bendix G-15 computer 220
Benjamin, Ralph 176, 178
Bennett, Sue 180
Berlin 143, 448
Copenhagen link, see Turbot codename
Paris link, see Jellyfish codename
Rome link, see Bream codename
Strausberg exchange 147
Technical University of Berlin 448
Bernal, Desmond 440
Bernays, Paul 262
Bertrand, Gustave 100–1, 129
Bigelow, Julian 49, 53, 201–2
Biggleswade, see Turing Road
bigram 92, 139, 416, 421
table 92–3, 104, 132
Bill of Rights 1689 27


Bin Laden, Osama 82
BINAC 53, 243
Binary Automatic Computer, see BINAC
binary number 405–6, 409–10
biological growth, see morphogenesis
biology 359–62, 376, see also experimental
biology; theoretical biology
Birch, Frank 104, 106
Bird, Charles 15
Bismarck 91, 417–8
Biuro Szyfrów, see Polish cipher bureau
black hole 460–1
Black, Sue 193–4
Blake, William 359, 361, 364, 366, 371
Blavatsky, Helena 348
Blenheim Palace (Oxfordshire) 174
Bletchley, see Turing Gate
Train Station 469
Bletchley Park 7–10, 21–25, 28, 32,
33, 50–1, 53, 67–70, 72, 75, 79ff, 189ff,
200, 203–4, 213–14, 224, 227, 229,
261, 265–7, 298, 317, 327–30, 361,
371, 387, 391, 417, 421–3, 440, 442,
468–9, 471, 473
Banburismus 129ff
bombes 109ff
computer operators 161ff
cryptanalysis 43
declassification 175ff
Delilah 183ff
Enigma machine 85ff, 97ff
Enigma Research Section 97, 106
first computer centre 156–7
heroes 173–4
Hollerith section 129, 134, 139, 416–18
influence on Manchester
computer 200–1
Intelligence Services Knox 107
Japanese Naval Section 141
Mansion 80, 99, 111, 126, 162, 164,
166, 167
Naval Enigma Section 99
photograph 80
secrecy 157–8
slate statue 196, 469
stable-yard 99, 103
Station X 7, 106, 189, 192, 465
Testery 167ff
Tunny 143ff
visitor numbers 193–4
Bletchley Park Trust 191, 471
Block B (Bletchley Park) 114–5, 469
Block C 134, 195, 417
Block F 164, 196
Block H 196
Block, Ned 273
Bolshevik codes 100

bomba 109–11, 117
name 109–10
bombe 8, 79–81, 83, 99–100, 104–105,
109ff, 129, 131, 138, 140–1, 153, 176,
180–1, 184, 190, 195, 213, 265–6, 312,
329, 341, 422–3, 425, 442, 468–9
Agnus Dei (second bombe) 81, 111
and artificial intelligence 265–6
diagonal board 123–5
diagram 118
factory 125–7
introduction 115–20
menu 118
photograph 110, 114, 118, 194
simultaneous scanning 123–5
training 125–7
Turing Bombe Rebuild Project 194–5
United States 184
Victory (first bombe) 8, 105–6, 111–12,
115, 118, 124
workings 120–3
Bombe Hut, see Hut 11
bomby 110–11, see also bomba
Bon Jovi, Jon 184
Boole, George 438
Boolean function 70
Borel, Émile 427–9, 431
photograph 428
Bouchon, Basile 133–4, 140
Bourne, Ruth 192
Bowden, Vivian 68, 249, 336
Box, George 381
Boyle, Danny 470
Bracknell, see Turing Drive
Bradridge, Jean 165
brain, see human brain
Breaking the Code play 32, 181, 467, 469
Bream codename 147
Breazeal, Cynthia 323–4
Briggs, Asa 192
Bristol Aeroplane 219
Bristol Siddeley Aero-engines 219
British Academy of Film and Television
Arts, see BAFTA
British Aircraft Corporation 219
British government, see UK government
British Intelligence 43
British Telecom 191
Britten Sinfonia orchestra 470
Britton, J. L. 394, 397
Broad, C. D. 348, 350–2
Broadbent, S. W. 71
Broadhurst, Sidney 177–8
Brooker, Tony 230
Brooks, Rodney 268, 320, 324
Brouwer, L. E. J. 439, 441
Brown, Gordon 17, 471
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