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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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Software for Justice
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (originally published in 2011) A jury is given misleading information in court by an expert witness. An innocent...
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Designing robots that care (plus links to related careers)
An article from Nicola Plant about ways of making social robots more sociable which links to a related EPSRC project about a tablet-based AI tool for people with...
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A visit to the Turing Machine: a short story
by Greg Michaelson Greg Michaelson is an Emeritus professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He is also a novelist and a short storyContinue...
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Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 3: the program
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London We have so far built the hardware of a Lego Turing Machine. Next we need the crucial part: software. It needs aContinue...
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AMPER: AI helping future you remember past you
Research to develop a new AI tool to help people with dementia to remember, and gain confidence. Also includes some suggested classroom activities and examples...
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Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 2: the controller
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Last time we started to build a working computer out of Lego: a Turing Machine. So far we have seen that we canContinue...
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Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 1: the tape
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London It it possible to make a working computer out of lego and you do not even have to pay for an expensive robot Mindstorm...
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Singing bird – a human choir, singing birdsong
Dawn Chorus: Marcus Coates and Geoff Sample recorded birdsong, then slowed it down and got people to sing it (then sped it up again!).
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Eggheads: helping us to visualise objects and classes
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Past CS4FN articles have explored object-oriented programming through self-aware pizza and Strictly Come Dancing...
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Ethics – What would you do? Part 2: answers
Answers to our ethical dilemma quiz from yesterday.
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Ethics – What would you do?
An ethical dilemma quiz with answers coming tomorrow.
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Equality, diversity and inclusion in the R Project: collaborative community coding & curating with Dr Heather Turner
Find out about Dr Heather Turner's EPSRC project to increase diversity and representation in software (R programming language) and about the role of Research Software...
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Tonight, 8pm on BBC Four – the first of three Christmas Lectures for young people on Artificial Intelligence
If you're near a television or computer at 8pm you can watch the first of this year's Christmas Lectures, all about artificial intelligence.
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CS4FN Advent Calendar – Day 25 bonus Christmas crackers: have you ever seen this cracker joke?
If you’re pulling a Christmas cracker today look out for this now famous but fairly puzzling ‘joke’ – Q: What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take?A: Con medicine...
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CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors
Our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar has now been running for 23 days! That’s one post every single day, matching a computing-themed blog post to the image...
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CS4FN Advent 2023: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer
Each day throughout December (until Christmas Day) we’ll be publishing a computing-themed blog post suggested by the picture on the front of our Advent Calendar...
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CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 21: stars and celestial navigation
Every day from the 1st to the 25th of December this blog will publish a Christmas Computing post, as part of our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. On the...
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CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 19: jingle bells or warning bells? Avoiding computer scams
It’s Day 19 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. Every day throughout Advent we’ll be doing our best to publish a computing-themed post that relates...
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CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 18: cracker or hacker? Cyber security
It’s Day 18 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. We’ve been posting a computing-themed article linked to the picture on the ‘front’ of the advent calendar...
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