From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London It’s 1989, a year with lots of milestones in Computer Science. In March, Tim Berners-Lee puts down in writing the...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 27, 2024 at 04:44 PM
by Daniel Gill and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What should you be thinking about when designing for a specific group with specific needs, suchContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 23, 2024 at 02:11 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What makes a good environment for child AI learning development? Possibly the same as for human child learning development...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 10, 2024 at 04:20 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London People often suggest neurodiverse people make good computer scientists. For example, one of the most famous autistic...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 5, 2024 at 12:13 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) Bugs are everywhere, but why not learn from the mistakes of others. Here are some common...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 24, 2024 at 05:45 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London It is Red nose day in the UK the day of raising money for the comic relief charity by buying and wearing red noses...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 15, 2024 at 01:03 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Today is Pi Day (14 March: 3.14) so we should look at how on earth you compute a number like Pi (3.1.4159….). It...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 14, 2024 at 06:36 PM
by Nick Ballou, Oxford Internet Institute Scientific fraud is worryingly common, though rarely talked about. It has been happening for years, but now Artificial...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 12, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 13, 2024 at 03:02 AM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 8, 2024 at 04:25 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 4, 2024 at 07:26 AM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 1, 2024 at 05:21 PM
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In a galaxy far, far away cyber security matters. So much so, that the whole film Rogue One is about it. Part of the key to keeping the Death Star plans secret...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 17, 2023 at 05:07 PM
In a galaxy far, far away cyber security matters quite a lot. So much so, in fact, that the whole film Rogue One is about it. The plot is all about the bad guys...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 16, 2023 at 03:51 PM
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What do you do when your boss tells you "go and invent a new product"? Lock yourself away and stare out the window? Go for a walk, waiting for inspiration? Medical...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | July 13, 2023 at 03:46 AM