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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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T. V. Raman and his virtual guide dogs
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London It’s 1989, a year with lots of milestones in Computer Science. In March, Tim Berners-Lee puts down in writing the...
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Designing for autistic people
by Daniel Gill and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What should you be thinking about when designing for a specific group with specific needs, suchContinue...
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Testing AIs in Minecraft
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What makes a good environment for child AI learning development? Possibly the same as for human child learning development...
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Neurodiversity and what it takes to be a good programmer
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London People often suggest neurodiverse people make good computer scientists. For example, one of the most famous autistic...
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The top 10 bugs
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) Bugs are everywhere, but why not learn from the mistakes of others. Here are some common...
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Do something computationally funny for money
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London It is Red nose day in the UK the day of raising money for the comic relief charity by buying and wearing red noses...
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