[Sam Greydanus] created a neural network that can encode and decode messages just as Enigma did. For those who don’t know, the Enigma machine was most famously used by the Germans during World War II ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

British mathematician Alan Turing designed the curiously named Bombe machine during the early stages of World War II. A forerunner to the computer, the Bombe was able to rapidly intercept messages, ...

Wartime code breaking has become a popular theme running through today’s films. It is a key plot device in this year’s Oscar-winning “A Beautiful Mind,” in which Nobel laureate mathematician John Nash ...

The flickering glow of an old computer screen casts shadows on a young Stuart Piltch, fingers flying across the keyboard as he battles lines of code. In that dimly lit room, a fascination with ...