June Pikes Peak Life Member Affinity Group Meeting
Geniuses at War:
Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
A Book Summary
Following the exploits of the motley collection of geniuses installed at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, author David Price focuses mainly on the events and people involved in the invention of Colossus—the first programmable, electronic, digital computer, which was designed to break the German army’s Lorenz cipher.
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- Date: 21 Jun 2023
- Time: 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- Starts 09 June 2023 05:02 PM
- Ends 21 June 2023 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age A Book Summary
Following the exploits of the motley collection of geniuses installed at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, author David Price focuses mainly on the events and people involved in the invention of Colossus—the first programmable, electronic, digital computer, which was designed to break the German army’s Lorenz cipher.
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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, Ramtron (FRAM), Simtek (non-volatile SRAM), and Freescale Semiconductor/Everspin Technologies (MRAM).
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