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Chinese Hacking of U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure.
Lots of…
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Playing the weighting game
How do search engines find the best web pages. It is like a giant talent contest where you want the best web pages to win. Karen Spärck Jones worked out how best...
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Collecting mini-beasts and pocket monsters
Satoshi Tajiri created one of the biggest money-making media franchises of all time. It all started with his love of nature and, in particular, minibeasts. It also...
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“Tlahcuilo”, a visual composer
A main goal of computational creativity research is to help us better understand how this essential human characteristic, creativity, works. By building computer...
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Follow those ants
Ant colonies are really good at adapting to changing situations: far better than humans. Sameena Shah wondered if Artificial Intelligence agents might do better...
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The first computer wizard
Christopher Strachey did a series of firsts in computer programming, and that was just when he was playing.
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A Godlike Heart
A short story by Rafael Pérez y Pérez of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México translated from the original Spanish
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Mary Clem: getting it right
Mary Clem was a pioneer of dependable computing long before the first computers existed. She was a computer herself, but became more like a programmer.
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