- Reclaim your name 27 May 2023
- Al-Jazari: the father of robotics 26 May 2023
- A PC Success 26 May 2023
- In space no one can hear you … 25 May 2023
- The last piece of the continental drift puzzle 20 May 2023
- Digital lollipop: no calories, just electronics! 15 May 2023
- The tale of the mote and the petrel 14 May 2023
- Fran Allen: Smart Translation 11 May 2023
- A gendered timeline of technology 7 May 2023
- Operational Transformation 6 May 2023
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- Reclaim your name
- Al-Jazari: the father of robotics
- A PC Success
- In space no one can hear you …
- The last piece of the continental drift puzzle
- Digital lollipop: no calories, just electronics!
- The tale of the mote and the petrel
- Fran Allen: Smart Translation
- A gendered timeline of technology
- Operational Transformation
- Engineering a cloak of invisibility: manipulating light with metamaterials
- Alexander Graham Bell: It’s good to talk
- Manufacturing Magic
- Solving problems you care about
- Sameena Shah: News you can trust
- Object-oriented pizza at the end of the universe
- Stretching your keyboard – getting more out of QWERTY
- Is ChatGPT’s “CS4FN” article good enough?
- Understanding Parties
- A machine wrote this post – OpenAi’s ChatGPT
- Mood Gloves
- What the real Pros say
- Susan Kare: Icon Draw
- Celebrating Jean Bartik – she was one of six women who programmed the ‘ENIAC’, a computer from the 1940s
- What’s that bird? Ask your phone – birdsong-recognition apps
- Spot the difference – modelling how humans see the world
- Inspiring Wendy Hall
- Barbara Liskov: Byzantine birthdays
- Marissa Mayer: Lemons Linking 41 Shades of Blue – A/B Testing
- Opinions, Opinions, Opinions
- Joyce Wheeler: The Life of a Star
- The Devil is in the Detail: Lessons from Animal Welfare? (Temple Grandin)
- Ingrid Daubechies: Wiggly lines help catching crime
- Mark Dean: An Inspiration
- 100,000 frames – quick draw: how computers help animators create
- Edie Schlain Windsor and same sex marriage
- Understanding matters of the heart – creating accurate computer models of human organs
- The Dark History of Algorithms
- Lego Computer Science: Logic with Truth Tables
- Lego Computer Science: Truth Tables
- Jacquie Lawson: the multi-million pound greeting
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: tautology and truth tables
- Alan Turing’s life
- Cognitive crash dummies
- Chatbot or Cheatbot?
- Daphne Oram: the dawn of music humans can’t play
- Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, born 14 January 1967
- Bringing people closer when they’re far away
- Hedy Lamarr: The movie star, the piano player and the torpedo
- Gary Starkweather (b 9 Jan 1938) invented the laser printer and colour management
- Lynn Conway: revolutionising chip design
- Sorry to bug you: Grace Hopper
- The first computer music
- Swat a way to drive
- Future Friendly: Focus on Kerstin Dautenhahn
- The last speaker
- The joke Turing test
- The Chinese room: zombie attack!
- The paranoid program
- How does Santa do it?
- Pepper’s Ghost: an 1860s illusion used in ‘head-up displays’
- Making sense of squishiness – 3D modelling the natural world
- Watching whales well – the travelling salesman problem
- A round up of our posts for #BlackHistoryMonth 2022
- Recognising (and addressing) bias in facial recognition tech – the Gender Shades Audit #BlackHistoryMonth
- Happy Hallowe’en – free spooky puzzles and activities
- Devices that work for everyone #BlackHistoryMonth
- Facing up to ALL faces
- Hidden Figures: NASA’s brilliant calculators #BlackHistoryMonth
- Writing together: Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis #BlackHistoryMonth
- Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star
- Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth
- Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science – problem-solving brain teasers
- Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature’s language
- Love your data
- Delicious computing: gestural computing with bananas and pizzas…
- Hiding in Skype: cryptography and steganography
- Naked Mole-Rats Go Digital – monitoring colonies remotely (while respecting their privacy)
- The heart of an Arabic programming language
- Escape from Egypt
- Chocoholic Subtraction – make an edible calculating Turing machine
- Chocolate Turing Machines – edible computing
- Microwave health check – using wearable tech to monitor elite athletes’ health
- Microwave Racing – making everyday devices easier to use
- Can a computer tell a good story?
- Patterns for Sharing – making algorithms generalisable
- Your own electrical sea: sensing your movements
- Playing Bridge, but not as we know it – the sound of the Human Harp
- Strictly Judging Objects
- Cryptography: You are what you know
- Cryptography: Shafi Goldwasser and the Zero Knowledge Proof
- The First Law of Humans
- Dressing it up
- The Mummy in an AI world: Jane Webb’s future
- The naked robot
- Lego computer science: What is computation (simple cellular automata)?
- Shirts that keep score
- More Encrypted Deckchairs
- Full metal jacket: the fashion of Iron Man
- Lego computer science: binary
- Let buttons be buttons
- Encrypted Deckchairs
- Back (page) to the drawing board
- Tempest Prognosticator: look out, leeches!
- Quipu: tie a knot in it
- Bullseye! The intelligent dart board
- The Ultimate (do nothing) machine
- Simone Giertz: A pat on the shoulder
- Christopher Strachey and the secret of being a Wizard Debugger
- Sophie Wilson: Where would feeding cows take you?
- The Hive at Kew
- The beach, the missionary and my origin myth
- Hoverflies: comin’ to get ya
- Edge-notched cards and relational databases
- The Wood Computer
- Babbage’s barrels
- Ada and the music machine
- Ant Art
- Ant Track Algorithms
- Diamond Dogs: Bowie’s algorithmic creativity
- The algorithm that could not speak its name
- I Ching binary
- Predicting the future: marble runs, binary and the I Ching
- Mary Coombs, teashops and Leo the computer
- A custard computer
- The taming of the screw
- Quicksilver memory
- A storm in a bell jar
- Pass the screwdriver, Igor
- Babbage’s triumph over brutal reality
- Nikola Tesla: the invisible genius
- Babbage’s Adders
- Making core rope memory
- Core rope memory
- An ode to technology
- Swallow a slug-bot to catch a …
- “The thundering engines vibrate throughout your body”
- If the Beagle had landed…
- Fencing the moon
- Ada Lovelace in her own words
- Dickens knitting in code
- Understanding Ultron: A Turing test for world domination – Peter McOwan’s reassuring article that robots probably aren’t out to get us
- April Fooling with computing – IP over avian carriers, PigeonRank
- 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
- 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 chatbots
- 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’)
- The machines can translate now
- Letters from the Victorian Smog: Braille: binary, bits & bytes
- 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)
- The red sock of doom – trying to catch mistakes before they happen
- 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
- Here
- 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)