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In topology, a '''CW complex''' is a type of topological space introduced by J. H. C. Whitehead to meet the needs of homotopy theory.
'''TICOM''' ('''Target Intelligence Committee''') was a project formed in World War II by the United States to find and seize German intelligence assets, particularly signals intelligence and cryptographic ones.


This class of spaces is broader and has some better categorical properties than simplicial complexes, but still retains a combinatorial nature that allows for [[Computation (nonfiction)|computation]] (often with a much smaller complex).
It operated alongside other Western Allied efforts to extract German scientific and technological information and personnel during and after the war, including Operation Paperclip (for rocketry), Operation Alsos (for nuclear information) and Operation Surgeon (for avionics).


Roughly speaking, a CW complex is made of basic building blocks called cells. The precise definition prescribes how the cells may be topologically glued together.
Competition with the Soviet Union for these same spoils of war was intense.
 
The C stands for "closure-finite", and the W for "weak topology".


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
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* [[Cryptographic numen]]


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Revision as of 19:55, 17 April 2017

TICOM (Target Intelligence Committee) was a project formed in World War II by the United States to find and seize German intelligence assets, particularly signals intelligence and cryptographic ones.

It operated alongside other Western Allied efforts to extract German scientific and technological information and personnel during and after the war, including Operation Paperclip (for rocketry), Operation Alsos (for nuclear information) and Operation Surgeon (for avionics).

Competition with the Soviet Union for these same spoils of war was intense.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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