Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge 132
mikejuk writes "Queen Elizabeth II has made her first ever visit to Bletchley Park, the home of the UK's World War II code-breaking efforts and now a museum. To mark the occasion, the Queen has issued a code cracking challenge of her own — 'the Agent X Code Book Challenge' — aimed at getting children interested in cryptography. Perhaps a royal programming or general technology challenge is next."
the intellectual side of WWII (Score:5, Informative)
Bletchley Park appears to be safe for now. Here are some previous Slashdot headlines:
2011
Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge
Tunny Code-Breaker Rebuilt At Bletchley Park
Campaign Saves Unique Turing Archive
EDSAC Computer To Be Rebuilt
2010
Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum
'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines
UK Gov't Spending Details Now Online
2009
Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized
No Museum Status For UK Home of Enigma Machine
Old Computers Resurrected As Instruments At Bletchley Park
2008
Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park
PGP Leads Corporate Efforts To Save Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park Faces Financial Rescue
Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin
While I realize one cannot have every building associated with victory in WWII saved, it is nice to see recognition of the intellectual side of it. Are there more dedicated sites of this kind around the world?
Re:Credit where credit's due... (Score:4, Informative)
How lovely. Has she paid her respects to Alan Turing yet?
Umm yes. In the linked video.
Re:Recruiting? (Score:4, Informative)
errr - that's not a tardis (hope this isn't a "swoosh" moment, it's a regular old-style public phone box (booth). You don't see them about much, although a while back an enterprising sculptor put a dozen together like this [blogspot.com] and flogged it to my local council for several tens of thousands of quid.
The tardis is supposed to be a police telephone box, which has a different design and colour like this [wikipedia.org]. These boxes also contained equipment other than a phone - such as a first aid kit and an incident book.
On a last pedantic note, there were red police boxes [wikipedia.org] in Glasgow, Scotland, for a time.
Re:Such a pity (Score:5, Informative)