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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 …
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Future Friendly: Focus on Kerstin Dautenhahn
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...
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The last speaker
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...
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The joke Turing test
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...
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The Chinese room: zombie attack!
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...
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The paranoid program
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,...
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How does Santa do it?
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...
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Pepper’s Ghost: an 1860s illusion used in ‘head-up displays’ ^JB
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...
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Making sense of squishiness – 3D modelling the natural world
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...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with Our New Code Samples!
By Satish Babu, Chair, UA Technology Working Group The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), in partnership with Cofomo Inc., have developed Universal Acceptance...
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Watching whales well – the travelling salesman problem ^JB
Island-hopping your way around the Travelling Salesman Problem (and back again).
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New UA Local Initiative in Sri Lanka Aims to Accelerate Adoption of Internationalized ccTLDs
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...
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A round up of our posts for #BlackHistoryMonth 2022
A round up of our blog posts, published during #BlackHistoryMonth 2022.
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Recognising (and addressing) bias in facial recognition tech – the Gender Shades Audit #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
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...
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Happy Hallowe’en – free spooky puzzles and activities
Free Hallowe'en activities and puzzles for the classroom or at home ^JB
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Testing Reveals Popular Web Hosting Tools are Not UA-Ready
By Nabil Benamar, Chair, UA Measurement Working Group Web hosting tools are critical to managing and maintaining a functional website. They are the building blocks...
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Devices that work for everyone #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
Good design should take everyone into account - examples here from a variety of sensors (cameras, soap dispenser sensors and oximeters) which didn't take account...
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Facing up to the problems of recognising faces #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
How the use of facial recognition technology caused a mistaken arrest.
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Hidden Figures – NASA’s brilliant calculators #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
The African-American women of NASA Langley who helped programme our way to the Moon.
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Writing together: Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
Back in 1956, Clarence Ellis started his career at the very bottom of the computer industry. He was given a job, at the age of 15, as a "computer operator"... because...
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