A few weeks ago I went to the Imperial War Museum in London to watch an artificial intelligence program attempt to crack the mindbendingly complex Enigma code used by the Germans during the second world war. It did so in 12 minutes and 50 seconds. Having already machine read some German language training data from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the AI program crunched through billions of permutations generated by the four-rotor Enigma machine sifting combinations of letters for their "Germanness". A challenge that had occupied some of Britain's most brilliant mathematical minds at Bletchley Park for many months and at enormous cost was solved by a modern AI program in a few minutes for only £10. The program, developed by the data analytics company Enigma Pattern and boosted by 2,000 virtual servers, was able to check an astonishing 41m combinations a second.

Divers recovered the device at the bottom of Gelting Bay, on Germany's northern coast, while working to remove abandoned fishing nets that threaten marine life. Designed shortly after WWI by the engineer Arthur Scherbius for commercial usage, the cipher engine was adopted by many national governments and militaries. The portable device is best-known for its use by the Axis powers to encode military commands, for safe transmission by radio, as part of their rapid'blitzkrieg' strategy. Enigma featured a number of wheels, which together formed an electric circuit that repeatedly scrambled an entered character -- and reconfigured after each letter. German military models -- made more complex through the addition of a plugboard, for added scrambling -- and their codebooks were highly sought by the allies.

Alan Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in London, in a well settle family. After he completed his studies and P.hd. He was a mathematician, computer scientist, logician, philosopher, and theoretical biologist and developed various algorithm. He is know as "father of AI (Artificial intelligence). He was the first person who has given the idea or basically the theory that when we born your frontal cortex is unorganised as we proceed to further it slowly started organising by feeding information into it and after years the human develop the persuade of thinking or the ability to create thought and this same can be also used in machine.

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to win World War II but who committed suicide after being convicted for homosexuality, will appear on the Bank of England's new £50 banknote, the central bank said Monday. "As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far-ranging and path-breaking," BoE Gov. Mark Carney, who took the final decision on the character selection, said. "Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand." Turing's electro-mechanical machine, a forerunner of modern computers, unraveled the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany and helped give the Allies an advantage in the naval struggle for control of the Atlantic. His work at Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime code-breaking center, was credited with shortening the war and saving many thousands of lives.

A fascinating new video gives a unique look inside the Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazis during World War Two and famously cracked by a team of code breakers led by British mathematician Alan Turing. Scientists used state-of-the-art X-ray scans to peer inside the Enigma's metal casing, revealing the wiring and rotors that encrypted the messages sent using the machine. In total, more than 1,500 scans were taken of an Enigma machine built in Berlin in 1941 - one of just 274 known to have survived the war. Enigmas, which resembled large typewriters, were used by German air, naval and army forces to safely send messages throughout the Second World War. It used a complex series of rotors and lights to encrypt messages by swapping letters around via an ever-changing'enigma code'.

A few weeks ago I went to the Imperial War Museum in London to watch an artificial intelligence program attempt to crack the mindbendingly complex Enigma code used by the Germans during the second world war. It did so in 12 minutes and 50 seconds. Having already machine read some German language training data from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the AI program crunched through billions of permutations generated by the four-rotor Enigma machine sifting combinations of letters for their "Germanness". A challenge that had occupied some of Britain's most brilliant mathematical minds at Bletchley Park for many months and at enormous cost was solved by a modern AI program in a few minutes for only £10. The program, developed by the data analytics company Enigma Pattern and boosted by 2,000 virtual servers, was able to check an astonishing 41m combinations a second.

Science author Simon Singh is stood beside an Enigma machine, talking about the 15,354,393,600 password variants the German encryption box allows with its spaghetti of wiring, pseudo-random rotors and reconfigurable plugboard. He's talking about the top secret work at Bletchley Park to break the code - the groundwork lain by Polish mathematicians; Alan Turing's bombe; years of frustrated efforts waiting for a breakthrough. Behind him, a screen shows that an artificial intelligence has cracked it in 13 minutes. The stunt is being made by a data analysis firm. It is showing off its machine learning toolset with a live demonstration, competing with the very best in 1930s encryption.

On Leap Day this year, Dr Sue Black was sitting on the sofa when her partner presented her with a puzzle. It was his laptop screen, which showed an Enigma machine simulator containing an encrypted message asking her to marry him. On Leap Day this year, Dr Sue Black was sitting on the sofa when her partner presented her with a puzzle. Dr Black, author and computer scientist, is well known for founding the high profile campaign to save Bletchley Park, the central site for Britain's codebreakers during World War Two. She is a senior research associate at University College London.