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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: the computer scientist without a computer: Issue 20 of cs4fn magazine Ada in her own words Geek Gurl parties in the 1830s Braille: Letters from the Victorian Smog Dickens Knitting in Code The Silver Lady and Ada Lovelace Victorian volunteers needed Frankenstein's Monster A Storm in a Bell Jar Puzzling Victorian Doodles Vulgar coloured pens Tut, Tut! Look at your labels dear!

Alan Turing

Alan Turing's life Britain in Alan Turing's time The Alan Turing issue Chocoholic Turing machines Chocoholic subtraction A visit to the Turing Machine: a short story

Algorithms and Complexity

Swap Puzzle (cs4fn-interactive) Bean Counting Mission:Impossible Mission:Impossible:I - Tile that floor Mission:Impossible:II - Stop it Hotel Doors and Keycards This mirror never lies The cure that just folds away Climbing hills How standing still can help keep us moving Watching whales well Getting there in much less time with a little soap or slime

Animation

Saving the Iberian Lynx A different kind of airbrushing The virtual Jedi Firefly Capture that actor! Grabbing attention, saving lives The art of animatronics 100,000 frames Open your mind with these animation facts! Automata: the good, the bad and the cheaters The art of animatronics, or how to build a believable dinosaur Calling all animators! A jungle with character From creepy to credible Back (page) on the big screen Hollywood beckons

Anthropology

Nurses in the Mist The Naked Robot Mobile Phone Society

Art

Portraits from the other side Computer Science and the Image Beauty Beyond Measure Sketching Science Back to the Original Back Up Arabesque Art Randomly Rich Art Aaron and the Art of Art Ed v Zach Back in Action Artists in disguise Threads and Yarns Hide and see Hacking tablecloths Breeding art The Painting Fool The Kew Hive Athletes' performances combined with generative art Breeding virtual ants to paint Susan Kare: Icon Draw: GUI

Artificial Intelligence

Victorian Parlour Games The Illusion of Intelligence Failing the Turing Test Humans and AIs Compete AIs draw your cartoon Alife Games Bred to your Ability The last speaker The age of computers outwitting humans is here Punk robots learn to pogo The Singularity: will computers outsmart humans? Go, Go gadget: computers' biggest gaming challenge Can a robot be a scientist? Build a brain to play snap (interactive) Meet the chatterbots Computers that read emotions Flash crash: the risks of replacing city traders with robots The Chinese Room: Zombie Attack! AI love you (2.0) The rise and fall of the living dead! Understanding Ultron: A Turing test for world domination Breeding virtual ants to paint

Artificial Life

Cyborg Super Senses What is life? Humans and AIs Compete Pass the screwdriver, Igor From Goo to you Alife Games Bred to your Ability Go fly a kite The Game of Life Frankenstein's Monster

Astronomy

Second star to the right and emailed by morning Which way to that pesky planet? Spotting Stardust Brain the Size of a Planet? Finding planets with cosmic blips Moons, maths and mystical maidens Is there anybody out there? Secret words in space Listen to the stars singing Lunar Mission One: A month to grab the moon

Audio Engineering

Patterns for Sharing Blind driver filches funky feely sound machine! Dreams, sticky tape and pass me a soldering iron! Peak levels: Anyone can get the sound right Video game audio The sound of secrets Antisound Sounds like magic Digital Songwriting Dream jobs: all you need is ears Sounds like a good illusion In the drummer's seat Moon droppings Audio Action! Factoids A soundly engineered waterfall Picking a conversation out of a crowd What bats can't hear Fire, Smoke and Music A microphone made of smoke Sound sculpting with fire Fire Music: the Pyrophone Combing for sound Ukulele Hero Sounding out a Sensory Garden Sonifying Zebrafish Sing in the Royal Albert Hall while staying at home Eye wobbling hauntings Hacking Teapots Naturally splendid acoustics Shh! Can you hear that diagram Soundly Invisible Listen to the stars singing Pots fixing problematic acoustics The Red Special: creating your own unique sound The Brazen Bull: The dark beginnings of sound technology Play your drawings with TuneTrace

BBC Make it Digital

Partnering BBC Make it Digital

Binary

Unlocking a Dead Man's Chest The Hamsters of Nim

Biology

Mini-beasts Computing and Evolution Cell Biology Making an eye Can Computers help understand the brain? Predicting Cancer Cures Getting an angle on the brain What is Life? DNA and the Prosecutor's Fallacy Blade: the emotional robot Future Friendly: Focus on Kerstin Dautenhahn The Tale of the Stormy Petrel The evolution solution revolution Evolutionary Predictions Looking inside medicine - computer scientists in the body Your magnetic personality Marks for the da Vinci Code: B- Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature's language Scratch, bite, decay and sniff Saving our bacon How nature works like Google The robot that’s made from mould Sounds like magic Build a brain to play snap (interactive) Getting there in much less time with a little soap or slime What bats can't hear Sonifying Zebrafish Doctor You Building life brick by brick Lines in the sand Stimulating a spine to stand Understanding matters of the heart War of the Worlds Revisited Information the slime way A True Hardware Brain

Bioengineering

Stimulating a spine to stand Understanding matters of the heart

Body-centric Computing

Signals get shaken and stirred Tattoo Tags

Books

Critical Mass Going Postal Does God Play Dice? Tattoo Tags: Surface Detail

Brain-computer Interaction

Competitive Zen Cyborg Super Senses Locked-in the Game of 20-Questions

Business and Finance

Pre Vu: an award winning invention The Million Dollar Home Page The Multi-Million Dollar Greeting Bad Wolf...or a virus in your head? My first signs Bangalore or Bust? Flash crash: the risks of replacing city traders with robots Football: win, lose or draw? Making business dance

Careers

Bangalore or Bust? Fiona Polack: Lucky History The Fundamentals of Careers Wanna be a rockstar - are you sure?

Cell Biology

Cartilage Cells: Under Pressure Blade: the emotional computer Can computers help understand the brain? I am Legend Predicting Cancer Cures Plague! Florence Nightingale: rebel with a cause Hooked on science Build a brain to play snap (interactive)

Charles Babbage

The first computers

Chemistry

Dial-a-molecule

Chips

Fancy some green chips? From a handful of sand to a fistful of dollars A powerful card The Tale of the Stormy Petrel Designing a planet's road network 10 billion processors shipped

Compilers

Sorry to bug you: Grace Hopper Fran Allen: pioneering work on optimizing compilers

Compression

Compression Code Puzzles The Ancient History of Compression Algorithms A (com)pressing problem Little Data: Compressing Vicky Pollard The magic in MP3 Picture this: JPEG it! Movie Magic: MPEG it! A Pixel Puzzle The Fractal Casino Royale Composing from Compression

Computational Thinking

A new booklet on puzzles, graphs and computational thinking A new booklet on hexahexaflexagon, finite state machines and computational thinking Logical thinking Algorithmic thinking Efficient solutions Scientific thinking Innovative thinking A Godlike Heart: a short story

Computational Creativity

The algorithm that could not speak its name Diamond Dogs Ada Lovelace: Visionary Music-making mates for Mortimer Playing with robots Music that has sex Breeding art Yeah, But is It? The Painting Fool Can a computer tell a good story? The judge of a good story Dangerous Curves Tours of Babel A True Hardware Brain Composing from Compression

Computer Architecture

Getting off the beach, fast Sophie Wilson: Where would feeding cows take you?

Computer Crime

A Grisly Story about Digits Mouse Signatures Mouse Arrest Computer Fraud Gone Phishing Catching a nasty virus Attack of the Zombies SpyBots Hack Attack Digital Kidnapping Theft or is it? Identity Theft Phonie Phones Will they take the bait? Hustlers go mobile The picture that's worth a thousand passwords The power of a word Cyber Security at the Movies: Rogue One (Part I: Physical Security) Cyber Security at the Movies: Rogue One (Part II: Authetication) The Queen of the North

Computer Graphics

Would Da Vinci Code? The virtual way around the world

Computer Vision

Playing Virtual Air Guitar Getting an angle on the brain Monsters on the Cards Spot the penguin The scene machines: check out a video on computers in Hollywood This mirror never lies How to get noticed Using the dark side Making sense of squishiness The mirror with a vision for style Cooking up computer style

Connections

Back (page) on the block

Constraint Programming

What a computer scientist did for her wedding

Critical Systems

Flash crash: the risks of replacing city traders with robots Safer Medical Devices: CHI+MED

Cryptography and Code Breaking: Keeping Secrets

Countdown - a tale of codes and computational conundrums Was the first computer a 'Bombe'? What was the first computer? A Code Breaking Puzzle The Beheading of Mary Queen of Scots How a CS undergraduate changed the world Keeping secrets on the internet

Cyborgs

Bionic Body Parts: Science or Fiction? Full metal jacket: the fashion of Iron Man Cyborg Super Senses Cyborg Music Competitive Zen The phone inside you Telescopic lens for Mothers day

Design for All and by All!

Wanting to scream and scream and scream Tickle my rubber hand Patterns for Sharing Blind driver filches funky feely sound machine! Dreams, sticky tape and pass me a soldering iron! Peak levels: Anyone can get the sound right I see where you run Let's all Jam: MoosikMasheens Phetch: Can you tell what it is yet? Locked into 20 Questions Cyborg Super Senses Where games controllers are going next Gadgets that get better as they get older Synthetic speech Future friends who get around The Tactful Watch Sounding out a Sensory Garden Remember to help people with dementia Shh! Can you hear that diagram Robots teaching sign language Telescopic lens for Mothers day Reading with Macular Degeneration

Dependable Computing

Barbara Liskov and byzantine birthdays The day the phones crashed - all of them Internet Crash How Madonna crashed the Internet

Digital Performance

Virtual Gorillaz Playing Virtual Air Guitar

Electronic Engineering

ee4fn: New magazine on electronic engineering and physical computing Artists in disguise Nikola Tesla, the invisible genius The cunning world of multiplexing Fancy some green chips? From a handful of sand to a fistful of dollars A powerful card The Tale of the Stormy Petrel Designing a planet's road network Billions of processors shipped Nerd Girls Power Play Firefly RFID Knickers Ukulele Hero Sounding out a Sensory Garden The challenge of the multicore Threads and Yarns The Touching Booth The Optical Pony Express Gadgeteer Complete Circuit Mr Bean: electrical engineer Hacking Teapots Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it How do you make a $25 computer? The phone inside you Dial-a-molecule Losing your wallet The Kew Hive

Electromagnetism

Dial-a-molecule

Emotions

Shake off that foul mood Blade: the emotional robot In the mood to face a computer How to win love by not playing it cool Romantic songs and the dating game Bringing people closer when they’re far away Contagious emotion

English, Reading and Writing

The algorithm that could not speak its name Diamond Dogs Can a computer tell a good story? The judge of a good story Dangerous Curves Tours of Babel A Code Breaking Puzzle The Joke Turing Test Phrase Detectives: puzzling with a purpose Book Reviews Computer Science Fiction: Short Stories Shaping Poems

Energy

Nerd Girls Power Play Smart Meter Snooping Cracking Smart Meters

Environmental (computer) science

Changing the face of the Earth Wallace and Gromit go easy on the Earth A tornado in Texas: weather, climate and chaos Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature's language Go fly a kite Is the grass always greener? Plug your energy leaks Sensing a turn-on: tracking people to save energy The Earth issue Brain power A mob for the Earth Do not enter! A wild way to escape diseases Driven to perfection The eye of the storm Back (page) to nature: understanding the Earth with computer science Nerd Girls Power Play A different kind of airbrushing Eco Warier Drone Bees

Faces

Go exploring Something special in the brain Fingers feeling focus Can you trust a smile? The digital age How to get a head in robotics Your future check mate That illusionary smile The robot dog illusion (PDF download) The emotion machine (PDF download)

Fashion and wearable computing

Light up the night How to win love by not playing cool Read the book, scan the t-shirt Back in fashion Shirts that keep score Full metal jacket: the fashion of Iron Man Signals get shaken and stirred The perfect fit Dressing it up An eye for design The mirror with a vision for style Back (page) and sides The Tactful Watch Tattoo Tags The icebreaker t-shirt Would you let a robot tattoo you?

Fiction

Robot: a short story A visit to the Turing Machine: a short story A Godlike Heart: a short story The Glue Pot The Queen of the North

Films

Fail Secure Security:Guardians of the Galaxy Understanding Ultron: A Turing test for world domination Picture this: JPEG it! Movie Magic: MPEG it! Bad Wolf...or a virus in your head? Bugs in Films Film Futures: Titanic Film futures: War of the Worlds Film futures: Lord of The Rings Film futures: Tsotsi Turning Silicon Into Gold 'Googling' Movies Behind You! Wallace and Gromit go easy on the Earth The scene machines: check out a video on computers in Hollywood Moon and Mind-Body Dualism Capture that actor! A jungle with character From creepy to credible Back (page) on the big screen The animation issue The virtual Jedi Inception and the Philosophy of Mind Frozen Defrosted FLying Horses: Moving Images, Filming wildlife and CGI Cyber Security at the Movies: Rogue One (Part I: Physical Security) Cyber Security at the Movies: Rogue One (Part II: Authetication)

The FUNdamentals of Computing

Algorithms Human-computer interaction Is computer science ICT? Logic and proof Networks Programming Student projects Computers and society Software engineering

Games and Winning

Write your first AI (cs4fn-interactive) Alife Games Bred to your Ability Winning at Noughts and Crosses Winning at Spit-Not-So Texting Marakech Meet the mobile phone that can play checkers The smart phone that plays snooker Winning at Nim The Prisoner's Dilemma Where games controllers are going next Find a hidden hoard with satellite help Chased in cyberspace 3D space and the Wii Hunt for treasure in a SimSubmarine Plague! Go, Go gadget: computers' biggest gaming challenge The cure that just folds away Faking mayhem The virtual Jedi Gaming together Sudoko in satellite communication A game set by sweat Robot Road Run The robot always wins Ninja white hat hacking Help the Facebook scientists: be a Tetris teacher The rise and fall of the living dead! Video Game Hero

History of Computer Science

A gendered timeline of technology Sorry to bug you: Grace Hopper Back to Life Back to the Future Muslim Maths Mark Dean: an inspiration Would Da Vinci Code? Was the first computer a 'Bombe'? The Beheading of Mary Queen of Scots Hooke and Newton in Sodarace Newton, the spymaster Hooke, Laws, Walking Carts and Fleas The first database What was the first computer? A brief history of the digital revolution, part 1: from birth to the moon A brief history of the digital revolution, part 2: they're everywhere! Nicola Tesla, the invisible genius Ada Lovelace: The pen, the paper and the poet's daughter Frankenstein's Monster Saving Bletchley Park Who invented the lightbulb? Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it Back (page) in the day Ada Lovelace: Visionary Why the Romans were pants at maths Who invented Morse Code? The first computers

Human Error

Microwave Racing Don't press that button Space Invaders or an experiment in human error Playing the blame game: the hand of Henry One button machines Grabbing attention, saving lives The Welsh red card A wee story about mistakes Another wee story about mistakes Oh no! Not again...saving lives by admitting your mistakes A picture tells a thousand words, or does it Frustrating, funny or fatal: a diary of everyday errors How easy are medical device symbols to remember? Lift me up! Let the brain take the strain The red sock of doom Pit Stop Heart Surgery Much ado about nothing Double or nothing

Human Computer Interaction

The FUNdamentals of HCI Wake Up! Fix it! Turn Right in Tenejapa Evaluate your mobile phone Pretty, Perfect Web Pages Space Invaders or an experiment in human error Locked into 20 Questions One button machines Playing Virtual Air Guitar Humans navigating by music Cyborg Super Senses Monsters on the Cards Blade: the emotional robot Singing Sock Puppets Interview: Designing and Evaluating an Innovative Radio Cognitive crash dummies See magic and fly a plane in an online experiment The importance of sushi How to creep out a monkey (or a human, for that matter) Reality? We can do better than that How to win love by not playing cool Grabbing attention, saving lives The Tactful Watch Usability: When too much science can be bad for you Oh no! Not again...saving lives by admitting your mistakes The phone inside you Lift me up! Making computers that treat you right Designer baby A formula for confusion Ideas in a flash Tasty behaviour The red sock of doom Pit Stop Heart Surgery Much ado about nothing Video Game Hero Susan Kare: Icon Draw: GUI

Human-Human Interaction

Back (page) from the dead Umm, ahh... understanding

ICT

Is Computer Science ICT?<

Illusions

Illusioneering Magic and Science An illusion of symmetry: Chunk it! Pepper's Ghost Make Gorillaz appear in your own Pepper's Ghost Sounds like a good illusion And the beat goes on...forever?

Information Theory

The Melody Triangle: surprising music

Information Retrieval (Searching for things)

Locked-in the Game of 20-Questions Karen Spärk-Jones: Playing the weighting game Zooming in on music Soundbite The colour of music 'Googling' Movies

Interactive

Write your first AI Swap Puzzle Prove the computer reads your mind Unlocking a Dead Man's Chest Play Hamster Nim against our Hamster Nim Master Pinky's Pipes Pickle Space Invaders or an experiment in human error The Great Disappearing Act AIs draw your cartoon Zoom in on your home from outer space Ethical Dilemma: What would you do? Humans and AIs Compete Watch where you're walking: vote See magic and fly a plane in an online experiment Robots making faces

The Internet, communications and other networks

Pinky's Pipes Pickle Little Data: Compressing Vicky Pollard What makes the web tick The first database Internet crash Coupled Cups The cunning world of multiplexing Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks! The Internet goes to the moon The recipe for spam Online shopping: big savings or big scam? What does your email address say about you? A mob for the Earth The online fix Real snail mail The Optical Pony Express Erna Schneider Hoover keeping the telephone lines open Li Zhang and wireless networks Why is your Internet so slow? Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution A fishy format that formally fixes folk to focus Hiding in Skype Where's my signal Losing your wallet Who invented Morse Code?

Jokes

Let's start April with a joke Get a job The Joke Turing Test

Language

Language in the Machine A recipe for programming I learn Greek, you can too The heart of an Arabic programming language Honky Herring Back (page) from the dead Learning languages game by game

Law

In a New York Nanosecond DNA and the Prosecutor's Fallacy Hostile Intent The robo-deer hunter (and friends) Software for justice

LGBT Computer Scientists

Alan Turing Cristopher Strachey Sophie Wilson

Limerick Challenge winners

There was a programmer from Crewe... There was a recursion that stopped... There was a computer that broke... Computing with genes is quite hard... Illusions computers can see... Computers are hiding out there... A computer found floating in space... A program for saving the Earth... Latest Limerick Challenge

Linguistics

The last speaker Do you speak Klingon? Learning to translate from us A Code Breaking Puzzle The Joke Turing Test Phrase Detectives: puzzling with a purpose Turn Right in Tenejapa How to make Google beatbox?! Robots teaching sign language

Logic and Proof

The remote control brain experiment On the dynamics of Dominos Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science The 21-card trick A Pixel Puzzle Predicting Cancer Cures Eating at Quonk Su Doku The BrainAcademy 2006 (which is coming soon) Sudoku Getting out of a jam Getting there in much less time with a little soap or slime

Machine Learning

A boost for learning Blade: the emotional computer The machines can translate now Making faces Predicting Spurs' results The colour of music Meanwhile, somewhere in Canada The evolution solution revolution Help the Facebook scientists: be a Tetris teacher Sweet Learning Computer Build a Brain Train a Neuron

Magic

The Magic of Computer Science Home Illusioneering Magic and Science Tick-tock, a magic clock Maths, magic and computer science Prove the computer reads your mind (cs4fn-interactive) Perfect Shuffles A mind reading trick The magic in MP3 All Change: some coin magic Texting Marakech The Loh Shu: The First Magic Square The remote control brain experiment The Mind-Boggling Memory Experiment 3, 2, 1, blastoff Johnny Ball's 'two wrongs do make a right' trick Download our computer science magic book! The zero carbon footprint card flight magic effect Are you psychic? The blended bodies experiment Did Derren do it with computer science? Sounds like magic Transmission impossible The 10p napkin scam What card is that? The piano trick A big brain, big number trick A magic trick from old Venice The invisible dice mystery Farming the future Magic through the trapdoor

Magic of Human Computer Interaction

Conjuring Computing and Cognition The blended bodies experiment The teleporting robot puzzle The teleporting robot: on video Mass hypnosis: The one where you force everyone to think of the same card Magic in space: The one where an astronaut breaks the laws of physics Joker in the pack: The one where the joker is pulled to the front Pick a card (online magic):The second one where the computer makes you pick a specific card You said it! The one where the tone of voice gives it all away Download both our new and old magic books The Kruskal count (online magic) Are you psychic? The one where you test the psychic powers of a member of the audience The Numbers Game: The one where I know which number you will pick iPhone magic: The ones where your iPhone does the work... The power of prophecy: The one where all the aces follow their leader The leading ace: The one where all the aces follow their leader The glass challenge: The one where a glass is mysteriously tall Do look, don't see: Scientific experiments in how magic works Snaps from the Past: Photographing Magic Finale: The one where you become a magician...

Materials Science

Soundly Invisible Engineering a cloak of invisibility

Maths

Muslim Maths Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science The 21-card trick The Hamsters of Nim Pinky's Pipes Pickle Maths, magic and computer science Prove the computer reads your mind (cs4fn-interactive) Perfect Shuffles A mind reading trick The magic in MP3 All Change: some coin magic Texting Marakech The Loh Shu: The First Magic Square The remote control brain experiment Marks for the da Vinci Code: B- Computing your cuppa A tornado in Texas: weather, climate and chaos The recipe for spam Climbing hills Software for justice Maths made magic

Medicine and Healthcare

Beep, beep mummy here I come! Under Pressure I Am Legend Florence Nightingale: Rebel With a Cause A wild way to escape diseases Can you feel it? Don't press that button Catch it, bin(ary) it, kill it Getting Billy Whizz playing Rugby again Remember to help people with dementia A cloud brain that can recognize breast cancer Stimulating a spine to stand Proper pumping Back (page) to full health

Mini-beasts

Life in the Undergrowth Sneaking up the hoverfly way Following ant trails Robots navigating by cricket song Spider Silk Communication As easy as a bee sees

Memory management

How do you make a $25 computer?

Mobile Computing

Gadgets that change the world Fizzees: the digital pet that cares for YOU Humans navigating by music Hunt with the lions Love your data Extra: find your own personal time zone Will they take the bait? I’m on the clock Can't buy happiness Hustlers go mobile Reality? We can do better than that Read the book, scan the t-shirt The mobile issue The Tactful Watch bActive - An Android App to Make You More Active Smart Phones, Operating Systems and Google Android Where's my signal

Multimodal Design: Interacting with all the senses

Beep, beep mummy here I come! Wanting to scream and scream and scream Tickle my rubber hand Patterns for Sharing Blind driver filches funky feely sound machine! Dreams, sticky tape and pass me a soldering iron! Peak levels: Anyone can get the sound right Let's all Jam: MoosikMasheens The Tactful Watch Shh! Can you hear that diagram Competitive Zen The Touching Booth How to win love by not playing cool Sounding out a Sensory Garden A mathematical model of the mind A soundly engineered waterfall Playing Virtual Air Guitar

Music

Patterns for Sharing Blind driver filches funky feely sound machine! Dreams, sticky tape and pass me a soldering iron! Peak levels: Anyone can get the sound right Let's all Jam: MoosikMasheens SoundBite: Your personal DJ Mathematical Ringtones The magic in MP3 How Madonna crashed the Internet Navigating using your ipod Pre Vu: an award winning invention Virtual Gorillaz Playing Virtual Air Guitar Drawing Dvořák The Colour of Music Optimisation and All That Jazz Beatboxing with a very different voice Punk robots learn to pogo Backstage with the punk robots Guitar heroes: fixing feedback with software Cyborg music Classical music. No, really classical Anything that's rock n' roll Dream jobs: all you need is ears Digital Songwriting Composing music with home made software Getting that digital voice Silent drum The 8-bit larynx The classical composer browser Become a real guitar hero In the drummer's seat In4merz: letting the music world know Simon says: no to autotune And the beat goes on...forever? Fire, Smoke and Music Fire Music: the Pyrophone A microphone made of smoke Sound sculpting with fire Combing for sound Romantic songs and the dating game Ukulele Hero MP3: something's gotta change! The truly virtual singer Zooming in on music Sing in the Royal Albert Hall while staying at home Musicology for the masses Moving forward by modelling the past How to make Google beatbox?! Mad about music technology? The Red Special: creating your own unique sound The Melody Triangle: surprising music Play your drawings with TuneTrace Music-making mates for Mortimer Diamond Dogs Music that has sex Composing from Compression

Networks

Scilly cable antics The Optical Pony Express Enough is enough!

Operating Systems

Smart Phones, Operating Systems and Google Android How do you make a $25 computer?

Optical Computing

Engineering a cloak of invisibility The Optical Pony Express

Parallel Computing

Ratatouille: Rats doing massively parallel computing Barbara Liskov and byzantine birthdays

Philosophy

Moon and Mind-Body Dualism Are we living in The Matrix? A mathematical model of the mind Ethics: what would you do? The Prisoner's Dilemma How do I know you are telling the truth? Karl Popper and the importance of being proved wrong Creatures - hatching life It's Life Jim, but not as we know it Inception and the Philosophy of Mind The naked robot The Chinese Room: Zombie Attack! Playing with robots Yeah, But is It? Understanding Ultron: A Turing test for world domination

Physical Computing

The Touching Booth How to win love by not playing cool Sounding out a Sensory Garden

Physics

Virtual Physics Standing on the Toes of Giants Quantum Virtual Reality Quantum computers and freaky physics Faster than a speeding bullet Faking mayhem How fast is faster than sound? Pots fixing problematic acoustics Molecular memory Soundly Invisible Engineering a cloak of invisibility

Privacy

Smart Meter Snooping Cracking Smart Meters Hiding in Skype

Programming

Write your first AI (cs4fn-interactive) Robots making faces A recipe for programming Who wants to be the weakest millionaire? Strictly X-factor Fibonnaci Recursion: She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not Ada Lovelace: The pen, the paper and the poet's daughter Christopher Strachey and the secret of being a Wizard Debugger Shaping Poems The Abracadabra program: the importance of spelling it out The Abracadabra program explained

Puzzles

Colour-by-number pixel puzzles Swap Puzzle Unlocking a Dead Man's Chest Pinky's Pipes Pickle Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science Hotel Doors and Keycards A Pixel Puzzle Eating at Quonk A Code Breaking Puzzle The Maze The Hampton Court Maze Proof Without Words

Regular Expressions

Knitters and coders

Robots

Future Friendly: Focus on Kerstin Dautenhahn Robot Wars: Interview with Noel Sharkey Blade: the emotional robot TETwalkers swarm Mars From Goo to you Robots slicing your eyes... An AI-Human-Robot interaction Can robots do sport? TETwalkers swarm Mars Robots navigating by cricket song Would Da Vinci Code? Punk robots learn to pogo Backstage with the punk robots Do not enter! The baby robot that's uncannily human Making faces The robot that’s made from mould How to creep out a monkey (or a human, for that matter) Future friends who get around Robots making faces The naked robot Robot: a short story Robots teaching sign language Robot Road Run Sarah the poetic robot Disobedient Objects Would you let a robot tattoo you? Eco Warier Drone Bees

Safety Critical Systems

Safer Medical Devices: CHI+MED Double or nothing

Safer Medical Devices: CHI+MED

Microwave Racing Don't press that button Playing the blame game: the hand of Henry Oh no! Not again...saving lives by admitting your mistakes How easy are medical device symbols to remember? A picture tells a thousand words, or does it Frustrating, funny or fatal: a diary of everyday errors How easy are medical device symbols to remember? Nurses in the Mist Machines making medicines safer Deadly bugs Programming wizards The Four Aces trick The red sock of doom Pit Stop Heart Surgery Much ado about nothing Double or nothing Report it! Whodunnit? Microwave Racing Screaming Headline Kills Think of a number Turning the world upside down

Science

Back (page) to front Peer into Science: it makes a good story How do I know you are telling the truth? Kuhn: Prove me wrong Popper: True or Falsification Video: My robot is better than your robot

Scotland

Do not enter Alexander Graham Bell The eye of the storm I am Legend Predicting Cancer Cures Gadgets that get better as they get older A funny thing happened on the way to the computer How a computer scientist organised her wedding Big Sister is Watching Synthetic speech Competitive Zen Is the grass always greener?

Social Networking

Back (page) from the dead Umm, ahh... understanding

Security

Guardians of the Galaxy (Fail Secure Security) How vampires can turn your data Ninja white hat hacking Torchwood: in need of some backup Hiding in Skype Cryptography and Code Breaking: Keeping Secrets Smart Meter Snooping Cracking Smart Meters Hiding in Skype Magic through the trapdoor

Society

Pulling a face The FUNdamentals of Computers and Society Watch where you're walking: vote Mobile Phone Society Ethical Dilemma: What would you do? Can I buy you a drink? The Great Disappearing Act Back to the Future Change the Future Fizzees: the digital pet that cares for YOU So What's the Problem? The Impact of Computers Watch where you're walking: vote StoryBank: Crossing the Global Divide How to win love by not playing cool Stirring up virtual trouble Disobedient Objects

Software Engineering

Back to the drawing board Spurs to win! Double or nothing

Space travel

Computer science in space 'The thundering engines vibrate throughout your body' The space game If the Beagle had landed? The space family Garriott Give me some Spock! Out of this world Lunar Mission One: A month to grab the moon

Sport

Football Crazy Fizzees: the digital pet that cares for YOU Challenging the line judge Playing the blame game: the hand of Henry Back (page) of the net The virtual way around the world Shirts that keep score bActive - An Android App to Make You More Active Getting Billy Whizz playing Rugby again The Welsh red card Football: win, lose or draw?

Tags

RFID Knickers Losing your wallet Tattoo Tags Intelligent dust, intelligent jewellery

TV and radio

Computers set to make cracking Christmas telly Time travel on the radio Back to Basics As Dark as Night Torchwood: in need of some backup Give me some Spock! Simon says: no to autotune

Ubiquitous Computing

If you go down to the woods today... Design your own mediascape I predict a riot Engaging and exciting computing: interview with Yvonne Rogers

Usability Evaluation Methods

Wake Up! Fix it! Evaluate your mobile phone Interview: Designing and Evaluating an Innovative Radio Cognitive crash dummies Usability: When too much science can be bad for you Designer baby

Victorian Computer Science

Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace: the computer scientist without a computer: Issue 20 of cs4fn magazine Braille: useful binary Nikola Tesla, the invisible genius Dickens Knitting in Code Frankenstein's Monster A Storm in a Bell Jar Who invented the lightbulb? It's good to talk: Alexander Graham Bell

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Web Sciences

Inspiring Wendy Hall The classical composer browser Soundbite Making business dance

Women in Computer Science

 Ada Lovelace Great Women Thinkers: "The woman of the future?!?" Future Friendly: Focus on Kerstin Dautenhahn Killer Robot? Evil Scientist?! Helpless Woman?!? The real pros Nerd Girls Power Play Knitters and coders Making sense of squishiness Don't press that button Inspiring Wendy Hall Ada Lovelace Day is coming! Erna Schneider Hoover keeping the telephone lines open Li Zhang and wireless networks Karen Spärk-Jones: Playing the weighting game Barbara Liskov and byzantine birthdays Out of this world Ada Lovelace: The pen, the paper and the poet's daughter Saving Bletchley Park Fiona Polack: Lucky History Sisters are doin it for themselves A gendered timeline of technology Saving the Iberian Lynx Sorry to bug you: Grace Hopper Fran Allen: pioneering work on optimizing compilers Video: Girls in a tech world Threads and Yarns A woman's touch Sophie Wilson: Where would feeding cows take you?

Writing

Can a computer tell a good story? The judge of a good story The algorithm that could not speak its name Diamond Dogs

Zoology

The Kew Hive FLying Horses: Moving Images, Filming wildlife and CGI

The Maze

The maze

The Maze