Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CDQUTMM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 317 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She recently won the PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Network award, was named Tech Hero by ITPRO magazine, won the BCS John Ivinson award in 2009, and was nominated for the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards in 2009 as well as the 2010 IT Twitter User of the Year. About the AuthorSue Black is a multi-award winning campaigner who, from 2008 to 2011, organized a highly successful campaign to save Bletchley Park and secure the Turing papers for the nation. She has been campaigning since 1998 for equality and support for women in tech.. She is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University College London and holds a PhD in software measurement
"This is a fantastic book!" according to P. Sammon. This is an excellent book. Bravo to Dr Black for her work to save Bletchley Park! She used the tools of our modern world to help save a cornerstone of our past. The book effectively weaves Bletchley Park’s history with the campaign to save it. It was no small feat how the a. Bletchley, Turing, and AI and machine learning Amazon Customer Great book about Bletchley Park - I have an interest in every sense of the phrase, as our dad Donald Michie was a cryptologist there during World War Two - he and Alan Turing used to go to the pub once a week to play chess, not that either were any good (which neither were), but . This superb book tells the extraordinary story of some of Amazon Customer This superb book tells the extraordinary story of some of the very ordinary people who helped Britain to win the war and the subsequent 20 year battle to save Bletchley Park, the intelligence HQ and home of code breaking and decryption central to that win. This is a must read for
Imagine a Britain where the most important sites of historical significance are replaced with housing estates and supermarkets…Imagine a Britain without Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and a team of code breakers changed the course of World War II and where thousands of women inspired future generations with their work in the fields of computing and technologyNow imagine a group of extraordinary people, who – seventy years after the birth of the modern computer at Bletchley Park &ndas
She is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University College London and holds a PhD in software measurement. She has been campaigning since 1998 for equality and support for women in tech.. She recently won the PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Network award, was named Tech Hero by ITPRO