Sentences with word «codebreaker»

A "codebreaker" is someone who can figure out or solve secret messages or codes. Full definition
British hopes lie, on this basis, with The Imitation Game, the flawed, wayward, but well - acted and forthright account of wartime codebreaker Alan Turing.
Benedict is up for his role as codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, while Timothy is nominated for his performance as artist JMW Turner in Mr Turner, with the pair also facing competition from Asa Butterfield (X+Y), Brendan Gleeson (Calvary) and Jack O'Connell -LRB-» 71).
The large majority of the film deals with his time working for the British government at Bletchley Park during World War II as part of a team of codebreakers to crack the Enigma code.
At the US Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a monument to secrecy that has vexed both professional and amateur codebreakers for over two decades.
Gordon Brown issued an apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the Bletchley codebreaker who committed suicide in the 1950s after being sentenced to chemical castration for being a homosexual.
Sidenote: I bet that the reason the British government knew women would make excellent codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II is because someone high up in the military happened to catch sight of a shawl knitting pattern and thought, «Whoever can decipher that shawl pattern could probably defeat Hitler.»
Richard Linklater's marvellous Boyhood has six nominations, but that is fewer than the decent but middling film The Imitation Game, about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing — and only as many as Clint Eastwood's fantastically dull and mediocre American Sniper, which has been hugely overrated.
Fun resources to practice French numbers to 20 - crosswords, word searches, missing letter and codebreaker puzzles plus 2 color by number mystery p...
David Cameron said the work by codebreaker Alan Turing and others did at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire was «absolutely vital» in winning World War 2.
Benedict Cumberbatch gets what might just be the Oscar push he needs in this biopic of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, adapted from the biography by Andrew Hodges.
Tying for second place (with five nominations apiece) were two definite dramas: Boyhood, Richard Linklater's coming - of - age tale filmed over 12 years, and The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing.
Black is an honorary professor in Computer Science at UCL, the founder of BCSWomen, a network for women in tech, and leader of the campaign to save Bletchley Park, the home of WW2 codebreakers which led to her first book, Saving Bletchley Park (Unbound).
There are 2 differentiated codebreaker activity sheets (HA and LA).
Simons, a former codebreaker for the National Security Agency with a Ph.D. in mathematics, earned $ 1.6 billion in 2016.
Synopsis: On a seemingly ordinary day, Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a quiet CIA codebreaker, walks into his workplace and finds that all of his coworkers hav... [MORE]
Surprises included Iñárritu's best director snag, a category largely predicted to go to «Boyhood» director and Richard Linklater, and Graham Moore's best adapted screenplay win for «The Imitation Game,» starring best actor nominee Benedict Cumberbatch as WWII codebreaker Alan Turing.
During his first trip to Comic - Con in July, Benedict Cumberbatch stopped to chat about his many brainy characters, from the detective he plays on the BBC's «Sherlock» and the World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, whom he portrays in the upcoming movie...
Director Morten Tyldum («Headhunters») and writer Graham Moore sketch out Turing's initial conflicts with his Bletchley colleagues (led by Matthew Goode, with Charles Dance and Mark Strong playing the bosses) and his friendship with fellow codebreaker Joan Clarke (nicely underplayed by Keira Knightley), who was briefly his fiancée.
His disrespect for authority puts him at odds with his boss (a deliciously haughty Charles Dance) at Bletchley Park, the hosting site for government codebreakers, and it immediately turns off his teammates, led by Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode), a chess champion who isn't used to having his intelligence questioned.
The British actress teams up with Benedict Cumberbatch in the «Imitation Game», in which he plays Alan Turing in the new biopic about the legendary codebreaker.
Benedict Cumberbatch has enjoyed a fairly varied career, having proven that he can play a famous detective, a greedy dragon, a narcissistic sorcerer, a giant CG demon (in the same movie), a renegade hacker who has been accused of sexual assault, and a genius codebreaker, but now he's signed on to play another...
Sherlock star Cumberbatch is nominated for playing codebreaker Alan Turing in World War Two drama The Imitation Game.
THE 13TH MAN by Enio Rigolin An unlikely codebreaker is thrust into the role of a hero when code being sent through comic books during WWII.
A joke codebreaker activity is included as well as exam type questions.
A blank template that can be used to create codebreakers.
Suitable for KS2 Contents: Message from Cody and introduction Dot - to - dot Mr Chip's computer chip challenge Word search Design Cody's next game Binary codebreaker Super Crazy Galaxy Invaders Answers page
Two Average Codebreakers, an eay one and a more difficult one to stretch learners.
After installing a projector in front of the car, plus a few codebreakers here and there, the game was set to be taken for a test drive.
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II.
I thought, then, about codebreakers confronted against activist hackers.
It is time to channel your inner codebreaker and earn a cool five g's.
In this war of information, the lives of a variety of characters become entangled: Kandinsky, the mythic leader of a group of hackers fighting the government and transnational companies; Albert, the founder of Black Chamber, a state security firm charged with deciphering the secret codes used in the information war; and Miguel Sáenz, Black Chamber's most famous codebreaker, who begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once supposed.
This follows the 2013 posthumous pardon of Alan Turing, the brilliant codebreaker who greatly contributed to the Allies» victory in World War II and was rewarded with a conviction for gross indecency and chemical castration before dying by suicide.
CodeBreakers At West Point cadets take an oath not to lie, cheat or steal.
David Cameron said the work by codebreaker Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire was «absolutely vital» in winning World War 2.
This portion of the film is also saddled with a subplot involving Finn (John Boyega), the conscientious Storm Trooper - turned - Rebel hero who seemed all but dead at the end of The Force Awakens, and Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), a Rebel mechanic who first idolizes him and then joins him on the seemingly impossible mission of tracking down a master codebreaker to help them sneak onto one of the First Order's ships and disable their tracking system.
The film is about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing and also stars Keira's fellow Brit Benedict Cumberbatch, who the actress said it was «lovely to work with».
The Imitation Game, about Alan Turing's time as a Bletchley Park codebreaker, scored nods for Benedict Cumberbatch's lead performance and Keira Knightley's supporting, as well as best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best editing, best production design and best music.
It's late Saturday evening and she's coming to the end of a day of promo for The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum's powerful biopic of WW2 codebreaker, Alan Turing.
Right now he's making a film about troubled wartime codebreaker Alan Turing.
Second world war thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaker Alan Turing finds the perfect combination for success
The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the second world war codebreaker Alan Turing, left empty - handed.
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