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 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
We can add emotion to our text communication using symbols but will computers be able to work out what we're saying?Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 8, 2024 at 06:13 AM
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
Time is the theme for this year's British Science Week. Here's how to calculate your own personal time zone. We also have a new time portal with some other 'timely'...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 11, 2024 at 05:56 AM
by Ursula Martin, University of Oxfordand Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In school we learn about the maths that others have invented: results that...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | March 4, 2024 at 05:09 AM
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (originally published in 2011) A jury is given misleading information in court by an expert witness. An innocent...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 26, 2024 at 09:49 AM
An article from Nicola Plant about ways of making social robots more sociable which links to a related EPSRC project about a tablet-based AI tool for people with...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 19, 2024 at 09:03 AM
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
Research to develop a new AI tool to help people with dementia to remember, and gain confidence. Also includes some suggested classroom activities and examples...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 5, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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
Dawn Chorus: Marcus Coates and Geoff Sample recorded birdsong, then slowed it down and got people to sing it (then sped it up again!).Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 29, 2024 at 09:01 AM
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Past CS4FN articles have explored object-oriented programming through self-aware pizza and Strictly Come Dancing...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 22, 2024 at 04:36 AM