Donald Michie
Michie links wartime cryptanalysis with the later study of machine learning. His Bletchley Park work on Tunny and later research at Edinburgh make him a well-documented bridge between codebreaking and computing research.
British codebreaker and artificial-intelligence researcher whose wartime work on the Lorenz cipher preceded a major academic career in machine intelligence.
Historical contribution
Michie links wartime cryptanalysis with the later study of machine learning. His Bletchley Park work on Tunny and later research at Edinburgh make him a well-documented bridge between codebreaking and computing research.
In memoriam
Donald Michie died in 2007. This archive remembers their contribution with care and credits the historical record on which this account relies.
Timeline
- 1923-11-11Born in Rangoon, then British Burma.
- 1942Joins the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park.
- 1940sContributes to work against the Lorenz (Tunny) cipher.
- 1965Founds Edinburgh’s Experimental Programming Unit.
- 1982Co-founds the Turing Institute in Glasgow.
- 2007-07-07Dies in England.
Donald Michie
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1940s-2007
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2007
- Known for
- Bletchley Park and Tunny cryptanalysis; University of Edinburgh machine-intelligence research; The Turing Institute
- Tags
- cryptanalysis, artificial-intelligence, bletchley-park, academic-research
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