Coding Breaking before, during and after WW II

Speaker: Charlie Shoup

World War II was the first major conflict where electronic communications played an important role in executing military strategies. The Axis and Allied powers went to great lengths to encode electronic messages to hide their contents from their enemies.

This talk will focus on the ways that the Allies in particular were able to break these codes and the importance of this to the outcome of the war.

Charlie Shoup is an emeritus member and past president of the Scientech Club. He has degrees from Princeton Univesity and the University of Tennessee where he recieved his MS and PhD. He is retired after working for the Cabot Corporation for many years.