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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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Free CS4FN magazine issue 29 arriving in schools now, on Diversity in Computing
Schoolteachers, school librarians and home educators who subscribe* to the FREE Computer Science For Fun magazine will be receiving their free print copies this...
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Digital lollipop: no calories, just electronics!
by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Can a computer create a taste in your mouth? Imagine scrolling down a list of flavours and then savouring your sweet...
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Engineering a Cloak of Invisibility: Manipulating Light with Metamaterials
by Akram Alomainy and Paul Curzon, QMUL You pull a cloak around you and disappear! Reality or science fiction? Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak is surely Hogwarts’...
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Solving problems you care about
Programmable design challenge: sixth formers on @QMUL's summer internship came up with creative solutions to solve real world problems.
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Stretching your keyboard – getting more out of QWERTY
How the QWERTY keyboard has been adapted for languages with different alphabets, using Input Method Editors.
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Spot the difference – modelling how humans see the world
Can you spot the difference?
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Inspiring Wendy Hall
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires...
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Marissa Mayer: Lemons Linking 41 Shades of Blue – A/B Testing
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, is famous for being founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
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The Life of a Star
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The first computers transformed the way research is done. One of the very first computers, EDSAC*, contributed to...
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The Devil is in the Detail: Lessons from Animal Welfare? (Temple Grandin)
What can Computer Scientists learn from Temple Grandin and the improvements she made to animal welfare?
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100,000 frames – quick draw: how computers help animators create ^JB
Ben Stephenson of the University of Calgary gives us a guide to the basics of animation. Animation isn’t a new field – artists have been creating animations for...
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Understanding matters of the heart – creating accurate computer models of human organs
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Ada Lovelace, the ‘first programmer’ thought the possibilities of computer science might cover a far wider breadth...
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The Dark History of Algorithms
Zin Derfoufi, a Computer Science student at Queen Mary, delves into some of the dark secrets of algorithms past. Algorithms are used throughout modern life forContinue...
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Cognitive crash dummies
Mathematical, digital and physical models can help us design things better (and more safely!)
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Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, born 14 January 1967
Black Girls Code aims to teach one million Black girls to code before 2040.
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Gary Starkweather (b 9 Jan 1938) invented the laser printer and colour management
Gary Starkweather (9 January 1938 – 26 December 2019) invented and developed the first laser printer. In the late 1960s he was an engineer working in the US for...
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Pepper’s Ghost: an 1860s illusion used in ‘head-up displays’ ^JB
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...
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Making sense of squishiness – 3D modelling the natural world
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...
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Watching whales well – the travelling salesman problem ^JB
Island-hopping your way around the Travelling Salesman Problem (and back again).
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A round up of our posts for #BlackHistoryMonth 2022
A round up of our blog posts, published during #BlackHistoryMonth 2022.12