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
The ballot for this year's AI-themed Ri Christmas lectures opens on 14 Sep, but there are other ways to see the lectures live, or later when broadcast.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | September 4, 2023 at 07:16 AM
by Dan Stowell, Queen Mary University of London How do we know how many birds there are out there: in the countryside, and in the city? Usually, it’s because people...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 21, 2023 at 06:33 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London, from June 2011 At first sight nothing could be more different than textiles and electronics. Put opposites together...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 10, 2023 at 06:42 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of Londonbased on a 2016 talk by Lourdes Agapito The cave paintings in Lascaux, France are early examples of human culture...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 7, 2023 at 04:14 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Frequency Analysis, a technique beloved by spies for centuries, and that led to the execution of at least one Queen...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 4, 2023 at 05:27 AM
How do modern codes keep your data safe online? Ben Stephenson of the University of Calgary explains When Alan Turing was breaking codes, the world was a pretty...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 3, 2023 at 04:33 AM
by Geraint Wiggins, Queen Mary University of London Computers compress files to save space. But it also allows them to create music! Music is special. It’s oneContinue...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 1, 2023 at 04:04 AM
by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Have you played the seaside arcade game where shiny metal balls drops down to ping, ping off little metal pegs and...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 31, 2023 at 04:51 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Paul goes on holiday and sees how a car park can work like a computer. Computers get faster and faster every year...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 25, 2023 at 12:08 PM
A mob for the Earth by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One Saturday afternoon last spring in San Francisco, a queue of people stretched down the pavement...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 24, 2023 at 07:23 AM
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by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Can a computer create a taste in your mouth? Imagine scrolling down a list of flavours and then savouring your sweet...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 15, 2023 at 05:19 AM
by Akram Alomainy and Paul Curzon, QMUL You pull a cloak around you and disappear! Reality or science fiction? Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak is surely Hogwarts’...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 2, 2023 at 10:13 AM
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by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 13, 2023 at 06:46 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, is famous for being founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 10, 2023 at 07:01 AM