5 de septiembre de 2023

DISERTACIÓN ” Geniuses at WAR: Code breaking in Bletchley Park “

En esta oportunidad David Bondurant, Retired PE, disertó sobre “Geniuses at WAR: Code breaking in Bletchley Park”. Fueron co-host los LMAG de Panamá, Uruguay, Perú, Puerto Rico & Caribbean y Monterrey.

Resumen

Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.

To surmount this seemingly impossible challenge, Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker, brought in a maverick English working-class engineer named Tommy Flowers who devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that would calculate at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman, Flowers and his team produced—against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership—Colossus, the world’s first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end.

Drawing upon recently declassified sources, David Bondurant bring us David A. Price’s Geniuses at War  the full mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus and chronicles the remarkable feats of engineering genius that marked the dawn of the digital age.

Disertante

David Bondurant has been involved with the computer and semiconductor industry for 50-years.  He was a computer architect at Control Data, Sperry-Univac, and Honeywell. He was involved with the government-sponsored advanced semiconductor program called VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) at Univac & Honeywell where he developed microprocessor and ASIC semiconductor products in bipolar CML, CMOS, and radiation hard CMOS.  He was involved with emerging non-volatile RAM marketing at industry leading companies.