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 (from the cs4fn archive) The languages of the world are going extinct at a rapid rate. As the numbers of peopleContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 28, 2022 at 02:08 PM
A funny thing happened on the way to the computer by Peter W. McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Laugh and the world laughs with you they...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 28, 2022 at 03:43 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (From the cs4fn archive) Iain M Banks’s science fiction novels about ‘The Culture’ imagine a universe inhabitedContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 27, 2022 at 04:21 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One of the greatest characters in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction radio series,...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 26, 2022 at 04:51 AM
Fast yuletide algorithms to visit all those chimneys in time by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London How does Santa do it? How does he visit all those children...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 24, 2022 at 03:17 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (first published in 2007) When Pepper’s Ghost first appeared on the stage as part of one of Professor Pepper’s shows...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 28, 2022 at 10:05 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Look out the window at the human-made world. It’s full of hard, geometric shapes – our buildings, the roads, our...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 21, 2022 at 06:48 AM
Island-hopping your way around the Travelling Salesman Problem (and back again).Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 7, 2022 at 06:25 AM
A 2018 study found that facial recognition systems were ess able to recognise darker skinned women because of bias in the data used to train them - but things are...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 1, 2022 at 10:52 AM
Good design should take everyone into account - examples here from a variety of sensors (cameras, soap dispenser sensors and oximeters) which didn't take account...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 28, 2022 at 07:04 AM
The African-American women of NASA Langley who helped programme our way to the Moon.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 24, 2022 at 05:14 AM
Back in 1956, Clarence Ellis started his career at the very bottom of the computer industry. He was given a job, at the age of 15, as a "computer operator"... because...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 20, 2022 at 07:52 AM
In 2006 QMUL one of the winning essays in the first year essay competition was written by one of our computing students, Dean Miller. He wrote about a fellow Black...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 16, 2022 at 07:29 PM
Freddie Figgers' parents encouraged him to fix things - he now owns the first Black-owned telecommunications company in the US. #BlackHistoryMonthJo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 12, 2022 at 04:33 AM
Gladys West solved the maths problems behind the positioning of satellites. She worked closely with programmers to write the code to do calculations based on her...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 10, 2022 at 05:08 AM
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 5, 2022 at 04:30 AM
Think of an ecosystem like a sentence – there are thousands of words in the English language but in order to make a sentence you have to put them together in the...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 3, 2022 at 03:59 AM