Enigma machine

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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The Enigma machine was an encryption device used by the German armed forces during the Second World War. Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park developed the Bombe a device to help decrypt Enigma machine messages. This was one of the inspirations for his later work studying computation.

Used on Chap. 1: page 5