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i'm here at the national museum of computing on bletchley park, a place full of computers and memoriesday, it's largely associated with alan turing, who cracked the previously unbreakable german enigma code. his efforts undoubtedly helped give the allies the edge. but 63% of those working out of bletchley park were in fact women, many of them working on the world—famous colossus. the job descriptions that they gave to women codebreakers were different from the job descriptions that they gave to men so, if you go and look at the paper records, you will find that women are described as typists or translators or clerical staff. and that disguises what they were actually doing, and this is because men were on a different pay scale, so the codebreakers were on one pay scale and got differentjob titles from the women, who were on a lower pay scale, but it didn't tell you anything about the quality of what they were actually doing all day. what should alan turing's legacy be? i've just written a book called reflections of alan turing which is trying to getaway from this sort of nostalgic, sep

his efforts gave the allies the edge. 63% of those working out of bletchley park were women, many ofption they gave to women were different to those given to men so, if you go and look at the paper records, you will find that women are described as typists or translators or clerical staff. and that disguises what they were actually doing and this is because men were on a different pay scale so the code breakers had different job titles to women, who were on a different pay scale, but it did not tell you anything about the quality of what they were doing. what should alan turing's legacy be? i've been writing a book that is trying to get away from the sepia—tinted view. of what he was and what he should stand for. he was always looking at the future, he was sort of like almost science—fiction and thinking about these amazing things like machine learning, which was obviously completely impossible in the late 1940s. while many women were employed in code breaking in the 1940s, the imbalance in numbers between men and women in cybersecurity today is huge. but to help put things right...

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