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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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Avoiding loneliness with StudyBuddy
By Klara Brodahl, StudyBuddy and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London University has always been a place where you make great friends for life. Social media...
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Why is your Internet so slow?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. This article was originally published on the CS4FN website. It was also published in our 2023 Advent Calendar.Continue...
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Global Entrepreneurship Week (18-24 Nov) – see our new Tech Entrepreneurship resource
It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week next week (18th to 24th November) and to celebrate we’ve put together a resource page (portal) on Tech Entrepreneurs to inspire...
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Wanna Be A Rock Star?
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Updated from the archive of 2007 Want to make sure your life turns out the way you want? Want to trade this life...
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The illusion of good software design
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London When disasters involving technology occur, human error is often given as the reason, but even experts make mistakes...
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Marc Hannah and the graphics pipeline
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What do a Nintendo games console and the films Jurassic Park, Beauty and the Beast and Terminator II have in common...
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Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. Claude Shannon, inventor of the rocket powered Frisbee, gasoline powered pogo stick, a calculator that worked using...
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The logic of Queens
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Queens is a fairly simple kind of logic puzzle found for example on LinkedIn as a way to draw you back to the site...
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Byte Queens
by lenia Maietta and Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Women have made vital contributions to computer science ever since Ada Lovelace debugged the first...
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Sonifying zebrafish biology
by the CS4FN team (from the archive) Biologists often analyse data about the cell biology of living animals to understand their development. A large part of this...
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Solving Railway Timetabling Problems with Data Visualisation
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Train timetables are complex. When designing a timetable for railways you have to think about the physical capabilities...
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This quantum message will self-destruct in 10 seconds…
A fuse burning
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The Teleporting Robot
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What is an algorithm? It is just a set of instructions that if followed precisely and in the given order, guarantees...
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Cooking up computer style
Use the recipe for hummus and tomato pasta to learn about creating a good computer program (and have a delicious meal at the end!).
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Ask About Asthma
Person holding an inhaler Image by NIAID CC-by-2.0
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Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 2)
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London In Part 1, we spoke to Stephen Parry about his experiences of working in computer science as an autistic person....
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Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 1)
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Autism is a condition with many associated challenges, but for some people it presents some benefits. This distinction...
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Scilly cable antics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London From the archive Autumn 1869. Undersea telecommunications cables let the world communicate and led to the worldContinue...
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London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell
CS4FN is taking part in the Centre of the Cell's "Celebrating Science" family-friendly event in Whitechapel, London tomorrow afternoon 12-4pm (free).
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