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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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Much ado about nothing
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The nurse types in a dose of 100.1 mg [milligrams] of a powerful drug and presses start. It duly injects 1001 mg...
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Double or nothing: an extra copy of your software, just in case
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London If you spent billions of dollars on a gadget you’d probably like it to last more than a minute before it blows up...
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Navajo Code Talkers
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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A project making it easier for disabled people to be involved in the design of new ICT tools and devices
"Inclusive Public Activities for information and Communication Technologies" is an EPSRC-funded project to make sure the voices an opinions of disabled people are...
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Finding work experience, or a job in computer science
Some suggested resources for school pupils looking for work experience or work, or recent graduates seeking jobs in computer science and related fields.
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Photogrammetry for fun, preservation and research – digitally stitching together 2D photographs to visualise the 3D world.
Photogrammetry, a way of creating a 3D representation from lots of overlapping 2D phototgraphs, has been around since the 1800s and is now being used by games designers...
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Music & Computing: TouchKeys: getting more from your keyboard
TouchKeys - using computer science and electronics to let pianists shape the notes their keyboards make.
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Joyce Weisbecker: the first indie games developer?
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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The basics of Quantum Computing: Qubits
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
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Free, London: Code and Create Workshop for Teens, part of #LondonDataWeek
Teens - make a classic arcade game with AI, chatbots and programming: FREE games coding workshop in Stratford, London for 13+: need to bring a laptop and create...
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Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the...
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Aged 11-16? Share your views on Computing education in England.
Deadline tomorrow for the Young People's Advisory Group on Computer Science - have your say on how computing is taught in England.
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Like science & tech? Maybe thinking about careers in it? Come to our FREE online Science Festival on Monday (24th June)
There's a free online science festival on Monday 24th for people interested in medical / dentistry careers but two of the talks are specifically about technology...
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Mary Ann Horton and the invention of email attachments
Edie Schlain Windsor was a senior systems programmer at IBM. There is more to life than computing though. She led the landmark US Supreme Court Case that was a...
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From Egyptian Survey puzzles to computational thinking
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way to use logical thinking is to deduce new facts but then turn them into IF-THEN rules. They tell us an action...
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