ST. PAUL, Minn. (Tribune News Service) — Thanks to a group of World War II code breakers, St. Paul will be cemented in history as one of the birthplaces of modern computing technology this week. Born ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 7, 2021 to reflect Jeuel Bannister Esmacher's alma mater. Jeuel Bannister Esmacher, 97, kept for decades the secret of her role in America’s World War II ...

I recently read “The Rose Code” by Kate Quinn. Based on real people and events, Quinn tells a fictionalized account of the code breakers working at Bletchley Park during World War II. I thoroughly ...

A World War II code breaker who helped hunt down Nazi U-boats turns 100 on Tuesday and will be honored with a parade past her house in Pittsburgh. Julia Parsons, who served in the Women Accepted for ...

Samuel Sandoval, one of the Navajo Nation's heroic WWII code talkers, died on Friday at a hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico Samuel Sandoval, one of the Navajo Nation's heroic WWII code talkers, has ...

President Trump has signed Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s legislation to name a Chesterfield County post office after World War II code breaker Dorothy Braden Bruce. Bruce was recruited by the U.S.

LONDON -- The experts who cracked Nazi Germany's secret codes are tackling a 10-letter enigma that has stumped fine minds for more than 250 years -- D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. Former code-breakers from ...

Join us on Sunday, February 28 for a talk by Joseph Jesson, who will share stories from his research on the RCA AR88 WWII interception receivers which supplied the intercepts at Bletchley Park during ...

Sir James Alfred Ewing, one of history's true unsung heroes, died this week (Jan. 7) in 1935. Ewing ran the unparalleled code-cracking team that worked in "Room 40" (where the team started, but ...

Every year on Nov. 11, we honor the brave soldiers who have served our nation with Veterans Day. There have been myriad books written about their experiences, many of which have made the USA TODAY ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...