Codebreaker, computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing
VS LBH NER NTRQ ORGJRRA RYRIRA NAQ FVKGRRA NAQ PNA ERNQ GUVF GURA JUL ABG RAGRE GUR NYNA GHEVAT PELCGBTENCUL PBZCRGVGVBA* - see answer below. The search for the next Alan Turing begins this New Year with a fiendish code-breaking competition for school children. The School of Mathematics at The University of Manchester , where Turing helped develop the earliest stored-program computers following his pioneering code-breaking work at Bletchley Park during WW2, is organising the competition to celebrate his centenary. The Alan Turing Centenary Cryptography Competition, sponsored by leading travel search site Skyscanner , is open to schoolchildren all over the country in years 7-11. Already more than 70 teams from schools across the Northwest have signed up. To crack the competition, which runs from today [January 9th] to April 16th, entrants must follow the story of Mike and Ellie - two children who get caught up in the search for the missing 'Turing Treasure' - solving a series of cryptographic challenges as they go. Charles Walkden, one of the organisers of the competition at the University, said: "You don't need to be an expert mathematician or a computer programming whizz to take part, you just need to be good at problem solving and thinking logically.
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