The ETHER Initiative

the pursuit of an ETernal HERitage

Archives for February 2015

New Course – Creating your Museum’s Web Site

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Announcing a New Course

We are happy to announce a new course that we will be offering soon, to provide the basis skills to build and maintain your own museum web sites. We will be using the WordPress libraries for this, which are available for free, and we will provide a free domain registration for 2 years and free hosting for two years as a part of the course fee, this being one free domain per museum. We will also develop a mini web page for our XtownX system, which is a local search engine to allow visitors to find information quickly.

Our research has shown that there remain a large number of museums who do not have a web site, or whose web sites are out of date, and many others with web sites which are not up to date with modern trends.

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Bletchley Park – From Old to New

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I have always considered Alan Turing to be my personal hero, the one historical figure whom I can look up to and acknowledge. Alan who? you say!

His life story has been the subject of a recent movie, The Imitation Game, which made it to the final few movies for the Best Picture at the Oscars. It did not win, but just getting to this point is significant.

So let me tell you a little about the man…

Alan Turing was the inventor of the first stored-program computer, and in doing so is seen as the father of computing, the father of computer programming, and also the father of artificial intelligence, and yet he had to keep all of this secret during his life because of the official secrets requirements during WWII, and much of this was only opened to the public a relatively few years ago.

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