They deserve credit along with a number of other sites. (The Manhattan Project i...

canistr · on Aug 5, 2011

Actually, the Queen visited Bletchley Park a couple of weeks ago and unveiled a tribute to the WWII Codebreakers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14164529

chadgeidel · on Aug 5, 2011

I'm not trying to be snarky, but I did not know the Manhattan Project used (non-human) computers in any significant way. None of the documentaries/specials I've seen have mentioned any use.

Would you care to enlighten me?

stcredzero · on Aug 5, 2011

They used IBM machines with punch cards to do (what were then) large numbers of automated computations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM#1939-1945:_World...

Feynman often used to rib Danny Hillis about Computer Science being a fluff field, since he'd already done all that stuff using primitive machines back in the 40's.

chadgeidel · on Aug 6, 2011

Thanks for that.