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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

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

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?

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

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

Audio Engineering

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

Binary

Unlocking a Dead Man's Chest The Hamsters of Nim

Biology

Computer Science for Biology...for Fun Making an eye Can Computers help understand the brain? Predicting Cancer Cures Getting an angle on the brain Life in the Undergrowth Sneaking up the hoverfly way Following ant trails Robots navigating by cricket song Spider Silk Communication 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 As easy as a bee sees How nature works like Google The robot that’s made from mould Sounds like magic

Books

Critical Mass Going Postal Does God Play Dice?

Brain-computer Interaction

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

Business

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?

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

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

Competitions and Challenges

Current Competitions Competition: Programming Escher Art Competition: From Alice to Genes Future Human Competition Change the Future BrainAcademy: The Compute-Ability Competition Latest Limerick Competition

Computational Thinking

Logical thinking Algorithmic thinking Efficient solutions Scientific thinking Innovative thinking

Computer Architecture

Getting off the beach, fast

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

Computer Graphics

Would Da Vinci Code?

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

Constraint Programming

What a computer scientist did for her wedding

Cryptography: 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 Mouse Signatures The picture that's worth a thousand passwords The power of a word

Design For All

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

Digital Performance

Virtual Gorillaz Playing Virtual Air Guitar

Electronic Engineering

Nicola 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 10 billion processors shipped Nerd Girls Power Play

Environment

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

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 The Galactic Pot Healer Game 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

History of Computer Science

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

Human error

Don't press that button Space Invaders or an experiment in human error Playing the blame game: the hand of Henry One button machines

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

Illusions

An illusion of symmetry: Chunk it! Pepper's Ghost Make Gorillaz appear in your own Pepper's Ghost Sounds like a good illusion

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

The Internet 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

Jokes

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

Law

In a New York Nanosecond DNA and the Prosecutor's Fallacy Hostile Intent

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... Latest Limerick Challenge

Linguistics

The last speaker Do you speak Klingon? Learning to translate from us The Galactic Pot Healer Game A Code Breaking Puzzle The Joke Turing Test Turn Right in Tenejapa Phrase Detectives: puzzling with a purpose

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

Magic

The Magic of Computer Science Home 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

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...

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

Medicine

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

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

Movies

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

Music

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

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

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?

Programming

Write your first AI (cs4fn-interactive) Who wants to be the weakest millionaire? Strictly X-factor BrainAcademy: The Compute-Ability Competition Fibonnaci Recursion: She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not

Puzzles

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

Science

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

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?

Semantic Web

The classical composer browser Soundbite

Society

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

Software Engineering

Back to the drawing board Spurs to win!

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!

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

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!

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

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Women in Computer Science

 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

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