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
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 28, 2022 at 07:04 AM
The African-American women of NASA Langley who helped programme our way to the Moon.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 24, 2022 at 05:14 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 20, 2022 at 07:52 AM
In 2006 QMUL one of the winning essays in the first year essay competition was written by one of our computing students, Dean Miller. He wrote about a fellow Black...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 16, 2022 at 07:29 PM
Freddie Figgers' parents encouraged him to fix things - he now owns the first Black-owned telecommunications company in the US. #BlackHistoryMonthJo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 12, 2022 at 04:33 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 10, 2022 at 05:08 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 5, 2022 at 04:30 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | October 3, 2022 at 03:59 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | September 30, 2022 at 05:33 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | September 25, 2022 at 11:55 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | September 25, 2022 at 11:26 AM
As a member of FODSI (Foundations of Data Science Institute -- an NSF funded institute with the aim of advancing theoretical foundations for data science), I'mhttps...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 8, 2021 at 09:45 AM
HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here. I'm using that an excuse to highlight our paper on Zero-CPU Collection...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 4, 2021 at 09:01 AM
In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit. The post is based on this paper (by...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 25, 2021 at 11:00 AM
The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellent (and patient) collaborators...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 20, 2021 at 02:13 PM
I was looking at today's Harvard Crimson, and noted that Harvard's shopping period looks ready to be vanished again. Shopping period is that wonderful Harvardsomething...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 4, 2021 at 04:55 PM
I have had papers rejected, with comments of the form that the results seem too easy, and are at the level of a homework assignment. Generally, I think these reviewers...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 9, 2021 at 04:58 PM
We're having an online workshop on "Machine Learning for Algorithms" on July 13-14, with a great group of speakers. Announcement below, link at https://fodsi.us...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 8, 2021 at 03:04 PM
I wanted to give a pointer to a new preprint up on bioRxiv on developing diagnostic assays for viruses, by (first author) Hayden Metsky (and others!) out of the...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 29, 2020 at 10:25 PM