Oral Interviews of Principals Involved in the Bletchley Park Computer Development, 1941-1945.

1992年春季学期，布莱切利公园的两名主要参与者在弗吉尼亚理工大学参加了德国最高司令部破解第二次世界大战的“谜语密码”。该大学计划对I.J.古德博士和唐纳德·米奇博士进行一系列为期四个小时的口头采访，内容包括他们在第二次世界大战期间参与布莱奇利公园的活动、解密和早期计算开发，以及他们自1945年以来对统计学、计算科学和人工智能的贡献。首席调查员安排了经验丰富的作家和擅长与计算机先驱进行口头访谈的专业人士参与这一口述历史项目。预期收集的档案材料将在《计算机通讯》、《计算历史年鉴》和其他与情报和统计有关的期刊上发表。这套采访的内容也将被考虑列入电视和广播连续剧。这笔奖金是为了奖励面试官在面试期间的旅费和生活费。弗吉尼亚理工大学、弗吉尼亚科学院、计算机械协会和美国统计协会也提供了部分支持。

Two of the major participants in the Bletchley Park work in breaking the World War II German High Command "Enigma Codes" are present at Virginia Tech during the Spring semester 1992. The University plans to conduct a series of four hour-long oral interviews of Dr. I.J. Good and Dr. Donald Michie concerning their involvement in the Bletchley Park activities, decryption and early computing developments during World War II, and their contributions to statistics, computing sciences and artificial intelligence since 1945. The principal investigator has arranged for experienced writers and professionals skilled in oral interviewing with computer pioneers to participate in this oral history project. It is expected that the resulting collection of archival material will result in several publications in the Communications of the ACM, the Annals of the History of Computing and other journals associated with the intelligence and statistics communities. Elements of the set of interviews will also be considered for inclusion in TV and Radio series. This award is for travel funds and subsistence during the interview period for the interviewers. Partial support is also being provided by Virginia Tech, the Virginia Academy of Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Statistical Association.//