Sentences with phrase «of codebreakers»

I decided to seek out the renegades of this codebreakers utopia, so I organized a family road trip through the American Southwest in hopes of finding out what these revolutionary builders could teach us about smarter shelters.»

Just as some of the Codebreakers went on to develop important post-war technology, these skills will give students the opportunity to shine in their future careers — and perhaps to create their own groundbreaking inventions.

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.

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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.»

We took a walk around the lack as we found our way from one building to another: lots of huts were built in the grounds to house the codebreakers and their machines.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, wearing an Alexander McQueen outfit, visits Bletchley Park (where her grandmother was a codebreaker) in Bletchley on July 18, 2014

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]

The film examines the life of Alan Turing, a codebreaker who is credited with breaking the German Enigma Code during WWII.

; and the character arcs — from Finn and Rose's failed codebreaker mission to Poe's redefining heroism after a mutinous turn to Rey entangling herself with Kylo Ren's blackened soul — transcend the good - vs - evil patterns of more mythological installments.

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...

Meanwhile, steely Ed Harris makes his second appearance of the year as a Nazi of some kind (the other being in Enemy at the Gates), a «man in black» who recruits Nash as a codebreaker in search of Russian agents smuggling parts for a portable nuclear bomb into the United States.

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.

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 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.

The lone new supplement of this disc is one that isn't about the film itself: «Ciphers, Codes & Codebreakers» (11:55).

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.

Careless Talk Costs Lives explores the everyday lives of Bletchley Park's Codebreakers, central to which was the necessity to keep quiet about their work, often lying to their closest friends and relatives.

Back in World War Two the Codebreakers were given only rudimentary inductions into the art of cracking the enemy's messages.

Block C, now the Visitor Centre, features an immersive introductory exhibition, Secrets Revealed, which gives an overview of life and work at Bletchley Park, starting from the moment the Codebreakers would have stepped off the train at Bletchley Station.

Huts 3 and 6 have been set dressed to show the conditions in which the Codebreakers would have worked, and Hut 8 has superb interactive material demonstrating how the codebreaking functioned, including some fantastic explanations of probability.

The story of Bletchley Park's Codebreakers will fascinate schoolchildren of all ages and there is no better way to learn about their work than in the capable and inspiring hands of the heritage attraction's learning department.

Codebreaker to find basic percentages of amounts (1 %, 5 %, 10 %, 25 %, 50 %).

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.

Sources: William R. Plum, The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States (1882); David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (1967).

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.