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Posted 12 May 2013
 Henry
F. Shorreck Memorial Lecture - Sponsored by the NSA
2013 SHORRECK LECTURE — The Center for Cryptologic History
is pleased to announce the upcoming 2013 Henry F. Schorreck
Memorial Lecture.
The Schorreck Lecture is a series of historical lectures
named in honor of the former NSA Historian. It is presented
annually by preeminent scholars who address cryptologic
issues with an historical perspective. Previous talks have
been delivered by scholars in the field such as David Kahn,
Christopher Andrew, John Ferris, and Stephen Budiansky.
The speaker this year will be Dr. Peter W. Donovan of the
Department of Mathematics, University of New South Wales,
Australia. A renowned expert in several subfields of
mathematics, as well as on cryptologic history, Dr. Donovan
has conducted some of the most innovative and path-breaking
work to date on the Allied effort to break Japanese
encipherment systems in use during WWII. He will be
presenting two separate lectures detailing the cipher war in
the Pacific, including revelations about the weaknesses in
the Japanese naval codes that the Allies exploited, all of
which led to dramatic successes on the battlefield.
These talks are free and open to the public. They will be
held in the Magic Room of the National Cryptologic
Museum. The presentation and specific talks are listed
below.
4Thursday, May 23 – 1000-1200:
“Understanding the Allied Approach to Radio Intelligence in
the Pacific Theatre during World War II”
4Friday, May 24 – 0930-1130:
“The Thought Behind High-level Cryptological Discovery,
1930-1945”
For more information about this event, please contact the
Center at 301-688-2336 or
history@nsa.gov.
Posted 12 November 2012
Cryptology
Symposium & Call For Papers - Sponsored by the NSA
Following is the description of our
upcoming Cryptologic History Symposium, to be held next
year. We are currently accepting proposals for papers and
panels. The first round of consideration will begin with
papers received by mid-January. The biennial Cryptologic
History Symposium will be held 17-18 October
2013. Historians from the Center, the Intelligence
Community, the defense establishment, and the military
services, as well as distinguished scholars from American
and foreign academic institutions, veterans of the
profession, graduate and undergraduate students, and the
interested public all will gather for two days of reflection
and debate on relevant and important topics from the
cryptologic past.
Past symposia have featured scholarship
that set out new ways to consider out cryptologic heritage,
and this one will be no exception. The intended goal is to
foster discussion on how cryptology has impacted political,
diplomatic, economic, and military tactics, operations,
strategy, planning, and command and control throughout
history. Any serious researcher whose work touches upon the
historical aspects of cryptology defined in its broadest
sense is encouraged to participate. The conference will
provide many opportunities for interaction with leading
historians and other distinguished experts. The mix of
practitioners, scholars, and interested observes always
precipitates a lively debate promoting an enhanced
appreciation for the context of past events.
The theme for the upcoming conference
will be Technological Change and Cryptology: Meeting the
Historical Challenges. The practice and application of
cryptanalysis and cryptography have been radically altered
as the evolution of technology has accelerated. Conference
participants will delve into the technical, scientific,
methodological, political, and industrial underpinnings of
signals intelligence and information assurance as presented
throughout a broad swath of history. While presenters may
choose to focus on purely technological topics, the theme is
not meant to be exclusionary; the panels will include papers
on a broad range of related operational, organizational,
counterintelligence, policy, and international themes. The
audience will be particularly interested in new findings on
the intersection of technology and cryptology as signals
systems evolved from manual to machine-assisted to digital
formats. The Symposium will be held at the Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Laboratorys Kossiakoff Center, in Laurel,
Maryland, a location central to the Baltimore, Maryland, and
Washington, D.C., areas. For more information on this
conference, contact Dr. Kent Sieg, the Symposium Executive
Director, by telephone at 301-688-2336 or via email at
kgsieg@nsa.gov.
Posted
1 December 2010
OCS
Class Ring Found !!! If you lost one, we may have it !
Did you lose an Army Signal Corps ring? The Army Historical
Society passed on to us an ex-WAC (1973 - 74F20) that found
an Army Signal Corps ring partially buried in the mud in
West Virginia, this year (2010). She was staying at a
Virginia hotel, and discovered it, picked it up, and is now
looking for the owner. Being ex-Army, the good lady
desperately wants to get it back to its owner. Inscribed on
the ring is the following information:
US Army Signal Corps
HINES 25B
If this is your ring... contact us at
Info@ArmySignalOCS.com and we will send you the lady's
personal eMail address. But hey, be prepared to answer the
question "What were you doing at that hotel???" (... just
kidding).
Posted
12 July 2010
New
VA Grave Program For Burial In Non-VA Cemeteries
The VA is offering a new program for Veterans not buried in
national or state veterans' cemeteries, or those without a
government grave marker.
The new program makes available a medallion that can be
affixed to existing graves, and can be used instead of a
traditional government headstone. Per
the VA, "The medallion is available in three sizes: 5", 3"
and 1 " in width. Each bronze medallion features the image
of a folded burial flag adorned with laurels and is
inscribed with the word "Veteran" at the top and the branch
of service at the bottom.
Next of kin will receive the medallion, along with a kit
that will allow the family or the staff of a private
cemetery to affix the medallion to a headstone, grave
marker, mausoleum or columbarium niche cover."
For information on the program, click the picture at
right. Information about other
VA burial benefits can be obtained
from national cemetery offices, from the VA website on the
Internet at
www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices
toll-free at 1-800-827-1000.
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ArmySignalOCS is expanding its site to
include personal stories, pictures, audio and video memories
from Army Signal OCS graduates, their families and friends.
If you want to memorialize your time in the Signal Corps,
send us your story.
Not all stories will be published.
ArmySignalOCS editors will read each submission and select
best of breed and interest to all. However, any topic is
acceptable: sad, happy, poignant, humorous, love laced, hard
hitting, true war stories, stories of fire fights, or just
memories of rainy nights in Georgia... send us what you have
and include pictures. For more information, click on the
Web Submissions link at left.
To read some of the stores already
submitted, see their pictures, or simply wander through the
memories of your fellow officers, click on the
Veterans' Salutes section at left.
Permanent Post
Pictures Needed
Of Your OCS Class
When you do a search on this site for a
member of your OCS Class, you end up on a web page with a
table showing the list of class members for your class, and
their current status. The bottom half of most pages is
blank. We want to fill it with pictures of the people in
that class. If you have candid pictures of class members,
especially if they were taken while you were in OCS,
please send them to us. We will post them on your
class' page. Be sure to give us a little background on your
pictures, so that we can properly label them. If you have
any good pics, take them down to your local drug store and
ask them to scan them at 300 dpi to a file. Attach your file
to an eMail, and send it to us at
WebMaster@ArmySignalOCS.com. Be sure to tell us the
Class Number, identify the people in it, and tell us a bit
about the setting, date, and anything else you can remember.
Both we, and your classmates, thank you.
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