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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 …
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Testing Reveals Popular Web Hosting Tools are Not UA-Ready
By Nabil Benamar, Chair, UA Measurement Working Group Web hosting tools are critical to managing and maintaining a functional website. They are the building blocks...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Devices that work for everyone #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
Good design should take everyone into account - examples here from a variety of sensors (cameras, soap dispenser sensors and oximeters) which didn't take account...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Facing up to the problems of recognising faces #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
How the use of facial recognition technology caused a mistaken arrest.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hidden Figures – NASA’s brilliant calculators #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
The African-American women of NASA Langley who helped programme our way to the Moon.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Writing together: Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
Back in 1956, Clarence Ellis started his career at the very bottom of the computer industry. He was given a job, at the age of 15, as a "computer operator"... because...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
An Inspiration: computer scientist Mark Dean #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
In 2006 QMUL one of the winning essays in the first year essay competition was written by one of our computing students, Dean Miller. He wrote about a fellow Black...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star
Freddie Figgers' parents encouraged him to fix things - he now owns the first Black-owned telecommunications company in the US. #BlackHistoryMonth
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth
Gladys West solved the maths problems behind the positioning of satellites. She worked closely with programmers to write the code to do calculations based on her...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN75 Recap: Challenges, Successes, and Looking Ahead to 2023
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) As the ICANN community came together for the last Public Meeting of 2022, the Universal Acceptance SteeringICANN75...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science – problem-solving brain teasers
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature’s language
Think of an ecosystem like a sentence – there are thousands of words in the English language but in order to make a sentence you have to put them together in the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Love your data
Some councils put up 'Ignore your sat nav' signs because drivers kept relying more on the wrong information from electronic directions instead of trusting their...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Delicious computing: gestural computing with bananas and pizzas…
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hiding in Skype: cryptography and steganography
Computer Science isn't just about using language, sometimes it's about losing it. Sometimes people want to send messages so no one even knows they exist and a great...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with the New UA-Readiness Report for FY22
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair “What gets measured gets managed.” This quote is popular in business settings because it speaks to a widely accepted truth: if you can...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Publishes FY23 Action Plan; Increases Focus on Technical Communities
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published its annual operating plan for FY23 (July 2022 – June 2023). The FY23 Action Plan provides an overview...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Göran Marby Named Honorary UASG Ambassador
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is pleased to announce that it has named Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Building a More Inclusive Internet for All: A Radix Initiative
By Aman Masjide, UA Ambassador; Consulting Advisor, Trust and Safety, Radix The ironic fact of the matter remains that there’s rigidity hardcoded into the ever-evolving...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Why UA? Understanding the Social and Economic Benefits of Universal Acceptance
By the UASG Communications Working Group Imagine trying to complete a transaction online — signing up for a class, ordering food delivery or subscribing to your...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group