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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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Hiroshi Kawano and his AI abstract artist
Piet Mondrian is famous for his pioneering pure abstract paintings that consist of blocks of colour with thick black borders. This series of works is iconic now...
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Piet Mondrian and Image Representation
Piet Mondrian was a pioneer of abstract art. He was a Dutch painter, famous for his minimalist abstract art. His series of grid-based paintings consisted of rectangles...
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Maria Cunitz: astronomer and algorithmic thinker
When did women first contribute to the subject we now call Computer Science: developing useful algorithms, for example? Perhaps you would guess Ada Lovelace inContinue...
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Maria Kirch: human computer of the 1600s and 1700s
Maria Kirch was a very early female human computer. Working in the late 1600s into the early 1700s, with her husband, she created astronomical tables that while...
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ELIZA: the first chatbot to fool people
Chatbots are now everywhere. You seemingly can’t touch a computer without one offering its opinion, or trying to help. This explosion is a result of the adventContinue...
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Dina St Johnston: Kickstarting a software industry
Back in its early days, after the war, women played a pivotal role in the computing industry, originally as skilled computer operators. Soon they started to beContinue...
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The logic behind syntactic sugar
Computer Scientists talk about “Syntactic Sugar” when talking about programming languages. But in what way might a program be made sweet? It is all about how necessary...
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