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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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Competitive Zen
To become a Jedi Knight you must have complete control of your thoughts. As you feel the force you start to control your surroundings and make objects move just...
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Pit-stop heart surgery
The Formula 1 car screams to a stop in the pit-lane. Seven seconds later, it has roared away again, back into the race. In those few seconds it has been refuelled...
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Cyber Security at the movies: Rogue one (Part II: Authentication)
In a galaxy far, far away cyber security matters. So much so, that the whole film Rogue One is about it. Part of the key to keeping the Death Star plans secret...
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Cyber Security at the movies: Rogue one (Part I: Physical Security)
In a galaxy far, far away cyber security matters quite a lot. So much so, in fact, that the whole film Rogue One is about it. The plot is all about the bad guys...
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When a chatbot acts as your “trusted” agent …
Artificial Intelligences are capable of acting as our agents freeing up our time, but can we trust them? Steve Phelps and his team run experiments with AIs as the...
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Nurses in the mist
What do you do when your boss tells you "go and invent a new product"? Lock yourself away and stare out the window? Go for a walk, waiting for inspiration? Medical...
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Screaming Headline Kills!!!
Medical mistakes can make a big news story with screaming headlines vilifying those 'responsible'. It may sell papers. Research by Chrystie Myketiak suggested it...
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Bitten blue
For some reason biting flies home in on some people while leaving others (even those walking next to them) alone. What is going on, what does it have to do with...
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Creating great game worlds
Are you a PUBG or Fortnite addict? Maybe you enjoy playing Minecraft? Have you thought how these games are created? Could you create a game yourself? It is all...
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Hallucinating chatbots
Chatbots that can answer questions and write things for you are in the news at the moment. These Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs are very good now at writing...
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Protecting your fridge
Ever been spammed by your fridge? It has happened, but Queen Mary's Gokop Goteng and Hadeel Alrubayyi aim to make it less likely with their work on detecting malware...
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The gender shades audit
Face recognition technology is used widely, such as at passport controls and by police forces. What if it isn't as good at recognising faces as it has been claimed...
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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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