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Thu 11 Nov 2008Code makers do code breakers make
SCIENCE WEEK IRELAND:WORDS HAVE been encoded for as long as we have had writing. But having code makers means that there will always be code breakers, according to Simon Singh.
The highly-successful author of Fermat's Last Theoremand more recently, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trialwas at University College Dublin yesterday to deliver a lecture on the long history of code making. The highly-entertaining talk was organised by the Claude Shannon Institute as part of its outreach programme and was its contribution to Science Week Ireland.
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