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Byte Queens
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Byte Queens

by lenia Maietta and Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Women have made vital contributions to computer science ever since Ada Lovelace debugged the first...

Sonifying zebrafish biology
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Sonifying zebrafish biology

by the CS4FN team (from the archive) Biologists often analyse data about the cell biology of living animals to understand their development. A large part of this...

Solving Railway Timetabling Problems with Data Visualisation
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Solving Railway Timetabling Problems with Data Visualisation

by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Train timetables are complex. When designing a timetable for railways you have to think about the physical capabilities...

This quantum message will self-destruct in 10 seconds…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

This quantum message will self-destruct in 10 seconds…

A fuse burning

The Teleporting Robot
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The Teleporting Robot

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What is an algorithm? It is just a set of instructions that if followed precisely and in the given order, guarantees...

Ask About Asthma
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Ask About Asthma

Person holding an inhaler Image by NIAID CC-by-2.0

Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 2)
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 2)

by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London In Part 1, we spoke to Stephen Parry about his experiences of working in computer science as an autistic person....

Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 1)
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 1)

by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Autism is a condition with many associated challenges, but for some people it presents some benefits. This distinction...

Scilly cable antics
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Scilly cable antics

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London From the archive Autumn 1869. Undersea telecommunications cables let the world communicate and led to the worldContinue...

Navajo Code Talkers
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Navajo Code Talkers

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Joyce Weisbecker: the first indie games developer?
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Joyce Weisbecker: the first indie games developer?

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

The basics of Quantum Computing: Qubits
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The basics of Quantum Computing: Qubits

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the...

Mary Ann Horton and the invention of email attachments
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Mary Ann Horton and the invention of email attachments

Edie Schlain Windsor was a senior systems programmer at IBM. There is more to life than computing though. She led the landmark US Supreme Court Case that was a...

From Egyptian Survey puzzles to computational thinking
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

From Egyptian Survey puzzles to computational thinking

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way to use logical thinking is to deduce new facts but then turn them into IF-THEN rules. They tell us an action...

Pac-Man and Games for Girls
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Pac-Man and Games for Girls

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In the beginning video games were for boys…and then came Pac-Man. Before mobile games, game consoles and PC based...
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