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
Gary Starkweather (9 January 1938 – 26 December 2019) invented and developed the first laser printer. In the late 1960s he was an engineer working in the US for...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 9, 2023 at 06:37 AM
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | January 5, 2023 at 06:22 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London MIT professor and transgender activist, Lynn Conway along with Carver Mead, completely changed the way we thinkContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 2, 2023 at 02:13 AM
by Peter W McOwan and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) In the 2003 film The Matrix Reloaded, Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and crew continue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 1, 2023 at 12:19 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) The first recorded music by a computer program was the result of a flamboyant flourish...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 31, 2022 at 06:45 AM
by Peter W McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) Flies are small, fast and rather cunning. Try to swat one and you will see just how...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 30, 2022 at 05:21 AM
by Peter W McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Kerstin Dautenhahn is a biologist with a mission: to help us make friends with robots. Kerstin...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 30, 2022 at 03:19 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the cs4fn archive) The languages of the world are going extinct at a rapid rate. As the numbers of peopleContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 28, 2022 at 02:08 PM
A funny thing happened on the way to the computer by Peter W. McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Laugh and the world laughs with you they...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 28, 2022 at 03:43 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (From the cs4fn archive) Iain M Banks’s science fiction novels about ‘The Culture’ imagine a universe inhabitedContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 27, 2022 at 04:21 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One of the greatest characters in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction radio series,...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 26, 2022 at 04:51 AM
Fast yuletide algorithms to visit all those chimneys in time by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London How does Santa do it? How does he visit all those children...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 24, 2022 at 03:17 PM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (first published in 2007) When Pepper’s Ghost first appeared on the stage as part of one of Professor Pepper’s shows...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 28, 2022 at 10:05 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Look out the window at the human-made world. It’s full of hard, geometric shapes – our buildings, the roads, our...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 21, 2022 at 06:48 AM
By Satish Babu, Chair, UA Technology Working Group The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), in partnership with Cofomo Inc., have developed Universal Acceptance...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | November 17, 2022 at 05:37 AM
Island-hopping your way around the Travelling Salesman Problem (and back again).Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 7, 2022 at 06:25 AM
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Sri Lanka is a densely populated, ethnically diverse island of 21.7 million people, with two official languages...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | November 3, 2022 at 07:18 AM
A 2018 study found that facial recognition systems were ess able to recognise darker skinned women because of bias in the data used to train them - but things are...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 1, 2022 at 10:52 AM