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IBM Plans Predictive and Generative Masters Tournament Experience
Should be an interesting demonstration by IBM. Hint at some predictive analytics? Will watch and report on this.
IBM Brings…
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Mood Gloves
When we watch a film, it's not just the pictures that make the experience, it's the soundtrack too. The music and sound effects play a big part in setting the mood...
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What the real Pros say
Here is what some (female) computer scientists and electronic engineers said that they most liked about their job and the subject.
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Susan Kare: Icon Draw
Graphical User Interfaces completely changed the way we used computers. A key to their success were clear and simple icons that had clear meanings. They were thanks...
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Spot the difference – modelling how humans see the world
Can you spot the difference?
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Inspiring Wendy Hall
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires...
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Barbara Liskov: Byzantine birthdays
You may not think of computers as argumentative, but some of them do bicker quite a lot, and for good reason. They often need to, including to get things right...
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Marissa Mayer: Lemons Linking 41 Shades of Blue – A/B Testing
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, is famous for being founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
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Opinions, Opinions, Opinions
Social media is full of people’s opinions, whether about politics, movies, things they bought, celebrities or just something in the news. However, sometimes there...
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The Life of a Star
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The first computers transformed the way research is done. One of the very first computers, EDSAC*, contributed to...
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The Devil is in the Detail: Lessons from Animal Welfare? (Temple Grandin)
What can Computer Scientists learn from Temple Grandin and the improvements she made to animal welfare?
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Ingrid Daubechies: Wiggly lines help catching crime
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London from the cs4fn women are here special issue. Computer scientists rely on maths a lot. As mathematicians devise new...
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Mark Dean: An Inspiration
Black Girls Code aims to teach one million Black girls to code before 2040.
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