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
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
Some councils put up 'Ignore your sat nav' signs because drivers kept relying more on the wrong information from electronic directions instead of trusting their...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | September 30, 2022 at 05:33 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) | September 25, 2022 at 11:55 AM
Computer Science isn't just about using language, sometimes it's about losing it. Sometimes people want to send messages so no one even knows they exist and a great...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | September 25, 2022 at 11:26 AM
In the 1990's Manindra Agrawal and V. Arvind published a paper claiming that if SAT is reducible to a (non-uniform) weighted threshold function then P = NP. Their...Lance From Computational Complexity | October 15, 2009 at 04:59 PM
While I was refactoring a hand full of commonly used methods from a few controllers into a superclass, I was looking for a way to test that these controllers are...Tobias Svensson From Return 42; | October 13, 2009 at 09:29 AM
This week Bill and I are both at the Dagstuhl Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Computation Complexity. I'll try to cover some of the talks and discussions on the...Lance From Computational Complexity | October 12, 2009 at 05:12 PM
A number of interesting visualizations of data. The original piece is 50 great examples of data visualization. There is no doubt that these are colorful, finely...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Bill and I battle it out over what should be taught in a complexity course in our new vidcast.
Lance From Computational Complexity | October 9, 2009 at 05:14 PM
On the New York Times website, John Markoff writes an article Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler has Consequences motivated by my CACM article on The Status of the....Lance From Computational Complexity | October 8, 2009 at 05:14 PM
In what seems like a small thing, Google now lets you get a quick view of search results, Gmail and Google docs as a PDF. As a result you can preserve more formatting...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 8, 2009 at 09:34 AM
When you get an invitation via email should you accept? How well targeted is it? Some real examples that I got.
EXAMPLE ONE:
I would like to invite you toclick...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | October 6, 2009 at 05:15 PM