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Scilly cable antics
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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).

Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025

Event proposals are now being accepted for the third annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, to be held on or around 28 March 2025 (between 1 March and 30 May 2025)...

Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures

Happy Summer bank holiday from CS4FN!

Much ado about nothing
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Double or nothing: an extra copy of your software, just in case
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Navajo Code Talkers
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

A project making it easier for disabled people to be involved in the design of new ICT tools and devices
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Finding work experience, or a job in computer science
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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.

Photogrammetry for fun, preservation and research – digitally stitching together 2D photographs to visualise the 3D world.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Music & Computing: TouchKeys: getting more from your keyboard
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Music & Computing: TouchKeys: getting more from your keyboard

TouchKeys - using computer science and electronics to let pianists shape the notes their keyboards make.

Joyce Weisbecker: the first indie games developer?
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

The basics of Quantum Computing: Qubits
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Free, London: Code and Create Workshop for Teens, part of #LondonDataWeek
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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...

Aged 11-16? Share your views on Computing education in England.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

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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