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British WW2 Codebreaking

by Nicholas Johnson

British WW2 Codebreaking
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Location Bletchly Park

Abstract

The paragraph should give a three to five sentence abstract about your entire London HUA experience including 1) a summary of the aims of your project, 2) your prior experience with humanities and arts courses and disciplines, and 3) your major takeaways from the experience. This can and should be very similar to the paragraph you use to summarize this milestone on your Profile Page. It should contain your main Objective, so be sure to clearly state a one-sentence statement that summarizes your main objective for this milestone such as "a comparison of the text of Medieval English choral music to that of the Baroque" or it may be a question such as "to what extent did religion influence Christopher Wren's sense of design?"

Introduction


I suggest you save this section for last. Describe the essence of this project. Cover what the project is and who cares in the first two sentences. Then cover what others have done like it, how your project is different. Discuss the extent to which your strategy for completing this project was new to you, or an extension of previous HUA experiences.

As you continue to think about your project milestones, reread the "Goals" narrative on defining project milestones from the HU2900 syllabus. Remember: the idea is to have equip your milestone with a really solid background and then some sort of "thing that you do". You'll need to add in some narrative to describe why you did the "thing that you did", which you'd probably want to do anyway. You can make it easy for your advisors to give you a high grade by ensuring that your project milestone work reflects careful, considerate, and comprehensive thought and effort in terms of your background review, and insightful, cumulative, and methodical approaches toward the creative components of your project milestone deliverables.

Section 1: Background




Enigma

What is it and why was it a big deal

Bletchley Park

What is Bletchley Park and what is special about it

Mansion

Additional information on the Mansion

Hut 8

Additional information of the Hut

Alan Turing

Who is Alan Turing, what did he do, and how did he do it

Gordon Welchman

Who is Gordon Welchman, what did he do



Bombe

What is the Bombe, what does it do, who created it,

The Impact

The impact of the cracking Enigma, what it did for the British and the Allies, and the impact it has had on encryption

Section 2: Deliverable



Enigma Recreation


Virtual recreation of an enigma machine

The Math behind it


Math behind the Enigma machine and showing why it was such a difficult problem

Gallery



Conclusion


In this section, provide a summary or recap of your work, as well as potential areas of further inquiry (for yourself, future students, or other researchers).

References



External Links

Bletchley Park Website