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 One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | June 21, 2024 at 04:12 AM
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
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | June 16, 2024 at 01:41 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | June 1, 2024 at 07:10 AM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 12, 2024 at 08:21 AM
Maths and magic, algebra and abracadabra - impress your friends with this magic trick (no props required) and learn a little bit about computer science.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 29, 2024 at 07:12 AM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 27, 2024 at 04:44 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 23, 2024 at 02:11 AM
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
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 10, 2024 at 04:20 PM
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
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 5, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 24, 2024 at 05:45 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 15, 2024 at 01:03 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Today is Pi Day (14 March: 3.14) so we should look at how on earth you compute a number like Pi (3.1.4159….). It...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 14, 2024 at 06:36 PM
by Nick Ballou, Oxford Internet Institute Scientific fraud is worryingly common, though rarely talked about. It has been happening for years, but now Artificial...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 12, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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
by Ursula Martin, University of Oxfordand Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In school we learn about the maths that others have invented: results that...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 4, 2024 at 05:09 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (originally published in 2011) A jury is given misleading information in court by an expert witness. An innocent...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 26, 2024 at 09:49 AM