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Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west

Verified Trustworthy Software The computing world is a wild west, with bugs in software the norm, and malicious people and hostile countries making use of themContinue...

Soft squidgy robots
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Soft squidgy robots

Think of a robot and you probably think of something hard, metal, solid. Bang into one and it would hurt! But researchers are inventing soft robots, ones that are...

Aaron and the art of art
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Aaron and the art of art

Aaron is a successful American painter. Aaron’s delicate and colourful compositions on canvas sell well in the American art market, and have been exhibited worldwide...

Sue Sentance: Teaching the world to program
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Sue Sentance: Teaching the world to program

How do you learn to program? How do you best teach programming. When the English school curriculum changed, requiring even primary school students to learn programming...

Ancient Egyptian Numerals
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Ancient Egyptian Numerals

How data is represented is an important part of computer science. There are lots of ways numbers can be represented. Choosing a good representation can make things...

Hiroshi Kawano and his AI abstract artist
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Piet Mondrian and Image Representation
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Maria Cunitz: astronomer and algorithmic thinker
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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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