- Understanding Ultron: A Turing test for world domination – Peter McOwan’s reassuring article that robots probably aren’t out to get us ^JB
- April Fooling with computing – IP over avian carriers, PigeonRank ^JB
- A Wookie for three minutes please – how Foley artists can manipulate natural and synthesised sounds for film, TV and radio
- The cure that just folds away: understanding protein folding to tackle diseases, and how computers (and people) can help ^JB
- Executable Biology – computing cancer using computational modelling
- Lego computer science: Gray code
- Lego computer science: representing numbers using position
- Lego computer science: representing numbers
- Lego computer science: compression algorithms
- Lego computer science: pixel pictures
- CS4FN Advent – Day 25: Merry Christmas! Today’s post is about the ‘wood computer’
- CS4FN Advent – Day 24: Santa’s Sleigh – track its progress through the skies
- CS4FN Advent – Day 23: Bonus material – see “Santa’s sleigh” flying overhead
- CS4FN Advent – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors
- CS4FN Advent – Day 22: stars and celestial navigation
- CS4FN Advent – Day 21: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer
- CS4FN Advent – Day 20: where’s it @? Gift tags and internet addresses
- CS4FN Advent – Day 19: jingle bells or warning bells? Avoiding computer scams
- CS4FN Advent – Day 18: cracker or hacker? Cyber security
- CS4FN Advent – Day 17: pocket-switching networked reindeer
- CS4FN Advent – Day 16: candy cane or walking aid: designing for everyone, human computer interaction
- CS4FN Advent – Day 15 – a candle: optical fibre, optical illusions
- CS4FN Advent – Day 14 – Why is your internet so slow + a festive kriss-kross puzzle
- CS4FN Advent – Day 13: snowflakes – make your own six-sided hexahexaflexagon with our templates
- CS4FN Advent Calendar – bonus material: HexaFestiveFlexagons to make and colour in
- CS4FN Advent – Day 12: Computer Memory – Molecules and Memristors
- CS4FN Advent – Day 11: the proof of the pudding… mathematical proof
- CS4FN Advent – Day 10: Holly, Ivy and Alexa – chatbots and the useful skill of file management. Plus win at noughts and crosses
- Meet the chatterbots – talking to computers thanks to artificial intelligence and virtual assistants
- CS4FN Advent – Day 9: gingerbread man – computing and ‘food’ (cookies, spam!), and a puzzle
- CS4FN Advent – Day 8: gifts, and wrapping – Tim Berners-Lee, Right to Repair & another computing puzzle
- CS4FN Advent – Day 7 – Computing for the birds: dawn chorus, birds as data carriers and a Google April Fool (plus a puzzle!)
- CS4FN Advent – Day 6 – patterned bauble: tracing patterns in computing – printed circuit boards, spotting links and a puzzle for tourists
- CS4FN Advent – Day 5 – snowman: analog hydraulic computers (aka water computers), digital compression, and a puzzle
- CS4FN Advent – Day 4 – Ice skate: detecting neutrinos at the South Pole, figure-skating motion capture, Frozen and a puzzle
- CS4FN Advent – Day 3 – woolly hat: warming versus cooling
- CS4FN Advent – Day 2 – Pairs: mittens, gloves, pair programming, magic tricks
- CS4FN Advent – Day 1 – Woolly jumpers, knitting and coding
- How to get a head in robotics (includes a free papercraft activity with a robot that expresses ’emotions’)
- Machine Learning: The machines can translate now
- Braille: binary, bits & bytes – Letters from the Victorian Smog
- Only the fittest slogans survive!
- What are birds actually saying?
- Stopping sounds getting left behind: the Bela computer (from @BelaPlatform)
- Ada Lovelace: Visionary
- I know where your cat lives (privacy and metadata) ^JB
- The red sock of doom – trying to catch mistakes before they happen ^JB
- Tantrix: P=NP?
- Emoticons and Emotions
- Knitters and Coders: separated at birth?
- Die another Day? Or How Madonna crashed the Internet
- The Emoji Crystal Ball
- Back (page) to health
- Gadgets based on works of fiction
- How do you solve a problem like arthritis?
- Are you there yet?
- So, so tired…
- Is your healthcare algorithm racist?
- Solving real problems with Bayesian networks
- Diagnose? Delay delivery? Decisions, decisions. Decisions about diabetes in pregnancy
- Bayes’ theorem as an algorithm
- Cloudy with a chance of pain
- A simple Bayesian network for having a virus
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- A graphical explanation of Bayes theorem
- What are the chances of that? The church minister’s hobby and clever machines
- The ping pong vaccination programming challenge
- Smart health: decisions, decisions, decisions
- I’m feeling Moo-dy today
- Standup Robots
- Sabine Hauert: Swarm Engineer
- What’s on your mind?
- In a New York nanosecond
- Hiding in Elizabethan Binary
- The optical pony express
- Smart bags
- Punk robots learn to pogo
- The computer vs the casino: Wearable tech cheating
- Sick tattoos
- One in the eye for wearable tech
- Smart tablets (to swallow)
- i-pickpocket
- AI Detecting the Scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Losing the match? Follow the science. Change the kit!
- DragonflyAI: I see what you see
- Studying Comedy with Computers
- Every Breath You Take: Reclaim the Internet
- Why would you accept inefficiency?
- The Cyber-Security Honeypot
- The very first computers
- A recipe for programming
- Florence Nightingale: rebel with a cause
- The Tactful Watch
- HMS Belfast: destroying the destroyer
- Machines Inventing Musical Instruments
- Return of the killer robot? Evil scientist?! Helpless woman?!?
- Who invented Morse code?
- Cyber Security at the Movies: Guardians of the Galaxy (Fail Secure security)