In 2021 the Canadian government announced that Indigenous people would be allowed to use their ancestral family names on government-issued identity documents. For...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 27, 2023 at 03:45 AM
Science fiction films are full of humanoid robots acting as servants, workers, friends or colleagues. The first were created during the Islamic Golden Age, a thousand...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 26, 2023 at 04:09 PM
We have moved on to smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, but for 30 years the desktop computer ruled, and originally not just any desktop computer, the IBM PC...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 26, 2023 at 03:36 AM
Johanna Lucht could do maths before she learned language. Why? Because she was born deaf and there was little support for deaf people where she lived. Despite,...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 25, 2023 at 01:06 PM
A computer helped provide the final piece in the puzzle of how the continents formed and moved around. It gave a convincing demonstration that the Americas, Europe...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 20, 2023 at 08:31 AM
by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Can a computer create a taste in your mouth? Imagine scrolling down a list of flavours and then savouring your sweet...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 15, 2023 at 05:19 AM
Biology and computer science can meet in some unexpected, not to mention inhospitable, places. Who would have thought that the chemical soup in the nests of Petrels...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 14, 2023 at 08:56 AM
Computers don't understand the instructions they are given in programs. They have to translate them in to actual computer languages first. Fran Allen won the top...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 11, 2023 at 05:07 PM
Women have played a gigantic role in the history of computing. Their ideas form the backbone to modern technology, though that has not always been obvious.Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 7, 2023 at 08:44 AM
How do online word processing programs manage to allow two or more people to change the same document at the same time without getting in a complete muddle? One...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 6, 2023 at 07:42 AM
by Akram Alomainy and Paul Curzon, QMUL You pull a cloak around you and disappear! Reality or science fiction? Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak is surely Hogwarts’...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | May 2, 2023 at 10:13 AM
Can computers lend a creative hand to the production of new magic tricks? That's a question Howard Williams and Peter McOwan wrestled with.Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 29, 2023 at 09:26 AM