{"id":1560,"date":"2017-06-01T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:02:13","slug":"paul-atkinson-bletchley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/paul-atkinson-bletchley\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Paul Atkinson speaking at celebration of computing at Bletchley Park &#8211; 9 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/paul-atkinson\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Paul Atkinson<\/a> has been invited to take\u00a0part in an event celebrating computing at Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and others did the work in breaking German codes used in WWII.\u00a0The week-long event, organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kellogg College, University of Oxford<\/a>, will comprise a number of activities centred\u00a0on cyber-security, computing and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/paul-atkinson-bletchley\/atkinson-2017-06-bletchley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley.jpg?fit=450%2C247&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,247\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ATKINSON 2017-06 Bletchley\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bletchley Park&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bletchley Park&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley.jpg?fit=450%2C247&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1564\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley-400x220.jpg?resize=400%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bletchley Park\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley.jpg?resize=400%2C220&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul will be speaking at an afternoon event dedicated to historical and cultural perspectives on Bletchley Park on Friday 9 June 2017.\u00a0It is planned that this event will also host three of the designers involved in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2084970\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Imitation Game<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to talk about re-creating Bletchley for the film and\u00a0the novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyribchester.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Ribchester<\/a> to talk about her Bletchley-based novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lucyribchester.com\/amber-shadows\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Amber Shadows<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the event is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/events\/bletchley-park-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Paul Atkinson has been invited to take\u00a0part in an event celebrating computing at Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and others did the work in breaking German codes used in WWII.\u00a0The week-long event, organised by Kellogg College, University of Oxford, will comprise a number of activities centred\u00a0on cyber-security, computing and mathematics. Paul will be speaking at an afternoon event dedicated [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,151,129,164],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-computing-research","tag-design-research","tag-paul-atkinson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/ATKINSON-2017-06-Bletchley-talk-e1496921147655.jpg?fit=516%2C167&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-pa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5851,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atkinson-world-service-click\/","url_meta":{"origin":1560,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;The computer mouse at 50&#8217; &#8211; Professor Paul Atkinson on the BBC World Service&#8217;s Click","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"03\/01\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor of Design and Design History\u00a0Paul Atkinson\u00a0 was a guest on BBC World Service's Click programme on Saturday 29 December talking about the computer mouse on its 50th anniversary and how the design was developed and refined. 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