Schoolteachers, school librarians and home educators who subscribe* to the FREE Computer Science For Fun magazine will be receiving their free print copies this week (some have already landed!). We are still sending a few out but you shouldn’t have too long to wait.
Everyone can also download the magazine as a FREE PDF or read the articles online, along with lots of other articles that we couldn’t fit into the magazine!
*Around 21,000 print copies of the CS4FN magazine are sent (free) to subscribing UK schools (including homeschoolers). You can sign up to receive a copy or class set of the next issue here https://bit.ly/subscribecs4fn
Issue 29 – Diversity in Computing
The latest (29th) issue of the CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) magazine is all about Diversity in Computing, with a focus on Black computer scientists.
The magazine contains… (deep breath)… Kimberly Bryant, Gokop Goteng & Hadeel Alrubayyi, bias in facial recognition (wrong man arrested), Joy Buolamwini & Timnit Gebru’s gender shades audit, Mark Dean (the first African American to receive IBM’s highest honour), Johanna Lucht, Clarence Ellis, Freddie Figgers, Satoshi Tajiri, Al-Jazari, machine-readable passports can discriminate against Indigenous people’s names in Canada (and elsewhere), Sadiqah Musa & Devina Nembhard, Christopher Strachey and Sameena Shah. Phew 🙂
We also have a larger Diversity portal with sections for LGBTQ+, Jewish, Women and Disabled computer scientists: https://cs4fn.blog/diversity/
CS4FN is a magazine and blog from the Computer Science department at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). We share information about computer science research in an engaging way and produce a 20 page A4 magazine every year, usually on a themed topic. There’s an accompanying page on our blog with additional articles, all free to use in classrooms or for general interest reading. The blog and magazine articles are aimed at 13+ and we also have mini magazines (‘A Bit of CS4FN’) and other booklets for younger readers (free to download).
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See more in ‘Celebrating Diversity in Computing‘
We have free posters to download and some information about the different people who’ve helped make modern computing what it is today.
Or click here: Celebrating diversity in computing
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