From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Sitting at the heart of your computer, mobile phone or DVD player is the microprocessor that makes it all work.Continue...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 10, 2024 at 08:14 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. This article was originally published on the CS4FN website. It was also published in our 2023 Advent Calendar.Continue...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 11, 2024 at 08:34 AM
It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week next week (18th to 24th November) and to celebrate we’ve put together a resource page (portal) on Tech Entrepreneurs to inspire...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 11, 2024 at 07:42 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. Claude Shannon, inventor of the rocket powered Frisbee, gasoline powered pogo stick, a calculator that worked using...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 21, 2024 at 04:14 AM
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CS4FN is taking part in the Centre of the Cell's "Celebrating Science" family-friendly event in Whitechapel, London tomorrow afternoon 12-4pm (free).Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 28, 2024 at 09:22 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The nurse types in a dose of 100.1 mg [milligrams] of a powerful drug and presses start. It duly injects 1001 mg...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 14, 2024 at 04:30 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London If you spent billions of dollars on a gadget you’d probably like it to last more than a minute before it blows up...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 13, 2024 at 04:44 AM
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TouchKeys - using computer science and electronics to let pianists shape the notes their keyboards make.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 29, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Deadline tomorrow for the Young People's Advisory Group on Computer Science - have your say on how computing is taught in England.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | June 20, 2024 at 05:42 AM
There's a free online science festival on Monday 24th for people interested in medical / dentistry careers but two of the talks are specifically about technology...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | June 18, 2024 at 09:28 AM
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You're probably pretty good at spotting a fake smile, but how might we teach robots to do the same...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 22, 2024 at 05:31 AM
We can add emotion to our text communication using symbols but will computers be able to work out what we're saying?Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 8, 2024 at 06:13 AM
Time is the theme for this year's British Science Week. Here's how to calculate your own personal time zone. We also have a new time portal with some other 'timely'...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 11, 2024 at 05:56 AM