Excursion to Bletchley Park
The programme for CiE 2012 starts on June 18th with an excursion to Bletchley Park, the center of British codebreaking efforts in WW2. The academic part then begins on the 19th. To take part in the excursion, please select the corresponding option when registering for the conference - places are limited! Travel from Cambridge to Bletchley Park and back will be via coach and will take about 1h 30min.
History of Bletchley Park:
Besides Cambridge and Manchester, Bletchley Park was a prime site of Alan Turing's work. Here he developed the Bombe, an electro-mechanical computing device designed to counteract the Germans' Enigma encryption machine during the Second World War. Now Bletchley Park features a museum surrounded by a park landscape. Details can be found at Bletchley Park's website.
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