Joel Greenberg

Joel Greenberg (born 1946) is an educational technology consultant and historian on the role of Bletchley Park in World War Two.[1][2]

The mansion at Bletchley Park, where Joel Greenberg studies its history and conducts tours

Greenberg gained a PhD degree in numerical mathematics from the University of Manchester (UMIST) in 1973. For over 33 years, he worked for the Open University and held a number of director-level management positions. He lectures and writes about Bletchley Park and its role in World War II. He also conducts tours of the site. He is author of biographies about Gordon Welchman, a key figure at Bletchley Park during WWII, and Alastair Denniston, the first head of GCHQ.[2][3] In 2017, he contributed a chapter to The Turing Guide on the German WWII Enigma machine.[4]

Books
  • Greenberg, Joel (2017). Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence. Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1473885257.
  • Greenberg, Joel (2017). Alastair Denniston: Code-breaking From Room 40 to Berkeley Street and the Birth of GCHQ. Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1526709127.
gollark: It's an old omnipresent virtual assistant system from a civilization which collapsed ages ago.
gollark: This prompt is waaaay too big and it wouldn't maintain a coherent story.
gollark: You realize that it can only consider something like 1024 tokens at once, right?
gollark: Oh, right, prompt it.
gollark: It's not really related though, GPT-whatever is almost certainly not actually simulating minds at any real fidelity.

References
  1. Copeland, Jack; Bowen, Jonathan; Sprevak, Mark; Wilson, Robin; et al. (2017). "Notes on Contributors". The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0198747833.
  2. "Authors – Joel Greenberg". UK: Pen & Sword Books. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  3. "Joel Greenberg". Celebrating Bletchley Park. March 2016.
  4. Greenberg, Joel (2017). "Chapter 10 – The Enigma machine". In Copeland, Jack; et al. (eds.). The Turing Guide. pp. 85–95.
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