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    Question #4342. clueless asks:

    Which nation was the first to use a fully electronic computer to crack enemy military codes?


    JReid

    		The questioner may be thinking of the 'Bombe' of British mathematician Alan Turing, which he invented during World War II to decipher the messages being sent by the Germans using their 'Enigma' machine. The Bombe was largely electrical, and was truly the first computer used to crack codes. However, it was not 'fully electronic' in the sense of the large Cray machines developed in the 1960's and used by the government in their code-breaking efforts.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing

    http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/newstopics/turing.html

    [Links added March 22, 2008 by Zbeck]

    Jul 18 00, 2:35 PM
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