Here’s a fascinating story about the women who helped break codes during WWII. The article appeared as part of ACM TechNews, and is excerpted from the book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy.
via The Secret History of the Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis – POLITICO Magazine
(Thanks to Barbara Ryder, emeritus professor and former chair of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, for the pointer)