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Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star
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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

Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth
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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...

Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science – problem-solving brain teasers
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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...

Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature’s language
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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...

Love your data
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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...

Delicious computing: gestural computing with bananas and pizzas…
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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...

Hiding in Skype: cryptography and steganography
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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...
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