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Michele Reilly is a scientist, an artist, and a systems thinker whose work resists easy classification. She trained in architecture and art at Cooper Union, where she began building intelligent machines and quickly became fascinated by the logic behind them. That curiosity drew her into mathematics, cryptography, macroeconomics, and eventually quantum physics. Her path has been shaped less by credentials than by the depth of her questions.
At MIT, where she teaches in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michele works at the intersection of computation and the structure of spacetime. She explores how information flows through the universe, drawing from Claude Shannon’s foundational theories and extending them into the quantum realm. Her research is ambitious, but it is rooted in careful thinking. She is not interested in speculation for its own sake. She wants to know what can be built, what can be measured, and what will last.
In 2016, she co-founded Turing, a quantum technology startup focused on building portable quantum memories and tools for long-distance quantum communication. She works closely with physicist Seth Lloyd on designing the scalable, robust systems needed to move quantum computing from theory into practice. The work is intricate and deliberate, building slowly toward a future that she sees as both beautiful and unfamiliar.
Michele is also a storyteller. Her science fiction series Steeplechase has received awards at Cannes and other international festivals. It reflects her belief that narrative and science are not separate pursuits, but parallel ways of exploring the unknown. In her teaching, she brings these strands together, guiding students through exercises that combine quantum theory, creative writing, and world-building. One of her courses, supported by MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology, invites students to imagine speculative futures grounded in scientific inquiry.
On her arm is a tattoo of Alan Turing. It is not ornamental. It is a quiet tribute to a thinker whose life and work continue to shape her own. Turing’s dedication to truth, structure, and the ethical weight of technology is a constant presence in her thinking. She carries it with her, quite literally.
The portrait above was made at The Interval at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Michele is seated beside a polished table that reflects her image. Behind her stands the Orrery, a planetary model designed to keep time for ten thousand years. The setting reflects the spirit of her work. She is grounded in the present but always thinking forward, asking how we might live in ways that honor complexity, care, and continuity. She does not speak often about legacy. She speaks about attention, about precision, and about the discipline of staying with difficult questions until they begin to yield something real.
Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, was long the top secret centre for government intelligence. Its radio interception was decisive in the fight against Hitler in the Second World War.
This three drum Enigma machine still operates today and a museum worker demonstrates it regularly to visitors. The plain text is entered on the keys and the letters above light up to give the code. The drums then advance to the next position ready for the next letter. By resetting the drums to the starting position and entering the code letters on the keys the plain text shows up in the lighted letters.
The plug board at the front of the machine add complexity to the coding. These machines were for field use and could be operated from internal batteries.
Taken with a Pentax ME Super on Fujicolor Superia 200 ASA Colour negative stock.
Electronics Mechanic Steve Waak installs a fan array into the base kit for the AN/TYQ-127 TCC.
The Communications Security (COMSEC) Branch is the one stop shop for life-cycle management of COMSEC equipment and Controlled Cryptographic Items. Branch employees receive, store, maintain accountability, and issue COMSEC and Information Security (INFOSEC) equipment and materiel. In addition, workers perform depot maintenance and demilitarization of COMSEC/INFOSEC equipment and sub-assemblies. The branch boasts five sections plus two Forward Repair Activities in Southwest Asia. (Photo by Steve Grzezdzinski)
Eric Walker, center, confer with Electronics Worker Troy Morgan and Electronics Mechanic Steve Waak, right, while they inventory an AN/TYQ-127 Transportable Communications Capability System (TCC).
The Communications Security (COMSEC) Branch is the one stop shop for life-cycle management of COMSEC equipment and Controlled Cryptographic Items. Branch employees receive, store, maintain accountability, and issue COMSEC and Information Security (INFOSEC) equipment and materiel. In addition, workers perform depot maintenance and demilitarization of COMSEC/INFOSEC equipment and sub-assemblies. The branch boasts five sections plus two Forward Repair Activities in Southwest Asia. (Photo by Steve Grzezdzinski)
Michele Reilly is a scientist, an artist, and a systems thinker whose work resists easy classification. She trained in architecture and art at Cooper Union, where she began building intelligent machines and quickly became fascinated by the logic behind them. That curiosity drew her into mathematics, cryptography, macroeconomics, and eventually quantum physics. Her path has been shaped less by credentials than by the depth of her questions.
At MIT, where she teaches in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michele works at the intersection of computation and the structure of spacetime. She explores how information flows through the universe, drawing from Claude Shannon’s foundational theories and extending them into the quantum realm. Her research is ambitious, but it is rooted in careful thinking. She is not interested in speculation for its own sake. She wants to know what can be built, what can be measured, and what will last.
In 2016, she co-founded Turing, a quantum technology startup focused on building portable quantum memories and tools for long-distance quantum communication. She works closely with physicist Seth Lloyd on designing the scalable, robust systems needed to move quantum computing from theory into practice. The work is intricate and deliberate, building slowly toward a future that she sees as both beautiful and unfamiliar.
Michele is also a storyteller. Her science fiction series Steeplechase has received awards at Cannes and other international festivals. It reflects her belief that narrative and science are not separate pursuits, but parallel ways of exploring the unknown. In her teaching, she brings these strands together, guiding students through exercises that combine quantum theory, creative writing, and world-building. One of her courses, supported by MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology, invites students to imagine speculative futures grounded in scientific inquiry.
On her arm is a tattoo of Alan Turing. It is not ornamental. It is a quiet tribute to a thinker whose life and work continue to shape her own. Turing’s dedication to truth, structure, and the ethical weight of technology is a constant presence in her thinking. She carries it with her, quite literally.
The portrait above was made at The Interval at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Michele is seated beside a polished table that reflects her image. Behind her stands the Orrery, a planetary model designed to keep time for ten thousand years. The setting reflects the spirit of her work. She is grounded in the present but always thinking forward, asking how we might live in ways that honor complexity, care, and continuity. She does not speak often about legacy. She speaks about attention, about precision, and about the discipline of staying with difficult questions until they begin to yield something real.
Simon Singh gave a highly entertaining talk on the "Cipher Challenge" he set in his history of cryptography book "The Code Book".
Simon Singh described how he constructed the Cipher Challenge and how the winners eventually cracked it. He also used Cipher Challenge to give an introduction to the history of cryptography and to demonstrate why encryption is more important today than ever before.
The AD90 key duplicator features the most innovative electronic components in the field of radio frequencies thus allowing easy detection, reading and cloning (duplication) of fixed code transponders and the identification of cryptographic transponder codes.
This is the liner for my Sherlock Adventure Bag.
Check out that sweet pocket! I'm getting better :) I did two for the inside liner, they both line up great! Have one more to make on the outside bag part in a while. Pockets are hard work.
Read the Story:
The Adventure of the Dancing Men online.
Free Bag Pattern:
See the flap photo for more details about the bag.
Electronics Mechanic Steve Franco, left, and Electronics Worker Shannon Allen track classified hard drives identified for destruction.
The Communications Security (COMSEC) Branch is the one stop shop for life-cycle management of COMSEC equipment and Controlled Cryptographic Items. Branch employees receive, store, maintain accountability, and issue COMSEC and Information Security (INFOSEC) equipment and materiel. In addition, workers perform depot maintenance and demilitarization of COMSEC/INFOSEC equipment and sub-assemblies. The branch boasts five sections plus two Forward Repair Activities in Southwest Asia. (Photo by Steve Grzezdzinski)
Sci-Tech Summer Camp Cryptography
SciTech is a STEM-focused community based program that is designed to foster awareness of and interest in STEM related careers.
Dr. Frank Ingram will facilitate a math session on cryptography (codebreaking) using mathematics.
'Concept' - International Exhibition on Conceptual Art, CICA Museum, 196-30, Samdo-ro, Yangchon-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea 415-843, 2016/05/06 - 2016/05/29
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Description of work: 'Signing'
GnuPG is a cryptography system for encrypted email communication which also includes the digital signing with an unique fingerprint for documents of every description. This fingerprint identifies your work and email address as the ones which belong to the right person.
The National Security Agency (NSA) - Employees entrance
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government, administered as part of the United States Department of Defense. Created on November 4, 1952 by President Harry S. Truman, it is responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, which involves cryptanalysis. It is also responsible for protecting U.S. government communications and information systems from similar agencies elsewhere, which involves cryptography.
La NSA/CSS (National Security Agency/Central Security Service, ou « Agence de sécurité nationale / Service central de sécurité ») est un organisme gouvernemental des États-Unis, responsable de la collecte et de l'analyse de toutes formes de communications, aussi bien militaires et gouvernementales que commerciales ou même personnelles, par radiodiffusion, par Internet ou par tout autre mode de transmission.
Equipo con el que se logró el récord del mundo de distancia en comunicaciones cifradas con fotones entrelazados.
CodeMeter from Wibu-Systems (www.wibu.com) featured at Kryptologikum 2013 (www.kryptologikum.de/ausstellungsstuecke/wibu.html), the event held by KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. CmSticks come in several form factors, from USB dongles to memory cards and ASICs.
The Isom Asemic Code Cipher is a cryptogram code system. This form of cipher embodies geometric and organic shapes. Because it use basic shapes it is an economical and effective method of transmitting confidential information. These devices were often employed by the ancients or by the Medieval philosophers and alchemists. The mystics of the Middle Ages used a system of cryptography which concealed the secrets of the human soul. The Isom Asemic Code Cipher can only be decoded by individuals versed in the deep philosophic principles upon which many mystics based their theories of life. Much information relating to the invisible nature of man is hidden under what seems to be mere scribbles and unrecognizable organic shapes. Every student of symbolism and philosophy should be acquainted with the underlying principles of cryptography. This art furnishes a fascinating method of developing an acute mental awareness. Discrimination and observation are indispensable to the person seeking knowledge, and no study is equal to cryptography as a means of invigorating these powers.
Amidst the market's ebb and flow, this piece captures the enduring value found not just in Bitcoin's price, but in the technology itself and its potential to reshape finance.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
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This is one of the few working 4-rotor Enigma machines in captivity. It belongs to Enigma expert and trustee of the Bletchley Park Museum Dr Marl Baldwin. He gave a talk on the German Enigma coding machines, the Bletchley Park cryptographers, and the WW2 Battle of the Atlantic, at Napier University, Edinburgh, on 2008/04/12.
He is seen here demonstrating the machine after that talk. A closer more detailed view of the machine can be seen here.
I could have arranged to take a better photograph by doing a bit of "I've got a big camera! Let me through!" stuff, but I'm shy. So I simply used the pop-up flash, and using a legs-together tripod as a pole, managed to get the camera round the back and overhead to get this shot. I roughly composed the shot by peering across at the LCD set on a slant so I could see it, and shot using a remote shutter release.
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