Any budding computer scientist should read 'The Machine Stops', a short story published in 1909 by EM Forster of period drama fame. How reliant on computers should we become? How important is dependability? Here is my CS4FN article inspired by reading it in school English cs4fn.blog/2025/11/16/t...

Here is the CS4FN review of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. The absolute most fun way to learn about Computer Networking on any planet in any universe whether real, imagined or riding through space on the backs of elephants standing on the back of a turtle. cs4fn.blog/2025/11/15/g...

Shh! Can you hear that diagram? What does a diagram sound like? What does the shape of a sound feel like? Researchers at @qmuleecs.bsky.social explored how to help the visually impaired through multi-modal interfaces. cs4fn.blog/2025/11/10/s... (from the archive)

How to spot a bad chef when you've never tasted the food (OR How to spot a bad quantum simulator when you do not know what the quantum circuit it is simulating is supposed to do.) Read latest CS4FN blog written by Vasileios Klimis of @qmuleecs.bsky.social cs4fn.blog/2025/11/12/t...

If you're free on Wednesday after school, why not boost your programming pedagogy with my online short course brought to you by OTSA. #caschat #TeamCompSci #Computing #Programming #PRIMM

It is Native American Heritage Month Find out about Jerry Elliot High Eagle of the Cherokee Nation and his role in the greatest rescue in history: saving the crew of Apollo 13 cs4fn.blog/2025/11/05/j...

November is Native American Heritage Month Navajo Code was used for secure communications in WWII devised by Navajo code talkers it was never cracked cs4fn.blog/2024/08/11/n...

Crystal ball coupons – what your data might be giving away (from the CS4FN archive) cs4fn.blog/2025/11/03/c...

Looking for guidance on how to resist AI mania in schools? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I just enjoyed reading the novel Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social): a utopian or is it dystopian future where humans have outsourced everything to AI and robots allowing them to live a life of pleasure? Here is my Computer Science for Fun review: cs4fn.blog/2025/11/03/s...

Halloween also gives me an excuse to post favourite CS jokes Why do computer scientists get confused between Halloween and Christmas? Why is the number 237 magical? What did the computer worry about most at Halloween? ANSWERS Because Oct 31 = Dec 25 Because it is Hex ED A byte from a vampire

For Halloween, read about where fictional Mummies came from and the link to AI cs4fn.blog/2022/07/23/t...

DNA is the molecule of life. Our DNA stores the information of how to create us. It can be hacked. Read about it for cyber security awareness week... cs4fn.blog/2025/10/29/h...

Learn about Shannon's Information Entropy while finding out about what makes a good password for Cyber Security Awareness month (with help from XKCD) in today's CS4FN blog cs4fn.blog/2025/10/28/p...

Watch the robot that always wins ... at the game of chance Rock, Scissors, Stone (how technology becomes magic) From the archive cs4fn.blog/2025/10/27/t...

He attacked me with a dictionary: why following simple password rules about adding capitals, numbers and special symbols in a simple way still gives weak passwords (for #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth) cs4fn.blog/2025/10/26/h...

October is cyber security awareness month We all need to be more security aware of the threats. Learn about Ninja White Hat Hacking as a career from our CS4FN article and perhaps in future more people could learn about it via fun games too...perhaps you could invent one. cs4fn.blog/2025/10/25/n...

Learn lots of Computer Science at the Movies cs4fn.blog/computer-sci...

October is black history month Read about Skip Ellis, part of the team who developed the ideas behind graphical user interfaces and developed the algorithms underpinning collaborative editing as in Google Docs cs4fn.blog/2022/10/20/w...

Spitfires and their heroic fighter pilots have always got the credit for winning the Battle of Britain, but was it really electronic engineers? the film Castles in the Sky tells the story of how RADAR helped Britain control the skies. cs4fn.blog/2025/10/24/r...

Transitional Automaton A poem by Vasileios Klimis about choice, memory, and predetermination – in 3 languages: original Greek, an English transcreation, and pseudocode version that translates the poem’s philosophical questions into the logic of an automaton. cs4fn.blog/2025/10/21/t...

Sea sounds sink ships From a past issue of the CS4FN magazine How some maths and audio engineering helped scientists understand ambient noise in the sea in WWII to set audio tripped mines: cs4fn.blog/2025/10/20/s...

Learn how information has been stored through history and ongoing research too in our Computer Memory portal cs4fn.blog/computer-mem... Turing machine tape, punch cards, quipu, magnetic core memory, core rope memory, mercury delay lines, memristors, molecular memory and custard transistors.

October is Black History Month Satellites are critical to much modern technology, and especially GPS and Gladys West was integral to the development of early satellites and knowing where they are. cs4fn.blog/2022/10/10/g...

Shouting at Memory: Where did my write go How can computer scientists improve computer memory, ensuring saving things is more secure? If Vasileios Klimis of QMUL’s Theory research group has his way, they will be learning from bats. Find out more in the new CS4FN blog post cs4fn.blog/2025/10/18/s...

AI now talks to us...Find out more about research on natural language processing tools past and present on our CS4FN portal cs4fn.blog/natural-lang... @qmuleecs.bsky.social

AI owes us an explanation Erhan Pisirir and Evangelia Kyrimi of @qmuleecs.bsky.social explain why AI tools need to explain why. cs4fn.blog/2025/10/16/a...

It is Ada Lovelace Day Read about Women in Computer Science (lots of them) here cs4fn.blog/the-women-ar...

A simple, but misunderstood, theoretical result about a little gadget called a perceptron that is now the basis of machine learning tools, led to the AI winter that set back AI development decades. Find out about perceptrons and went wrong in the latest CS4FN blog post: cs4fn.blog/2025/10/12/p...

If you have / teach children you might enjoy our free Hallowe'en Spooky Zine, from @cs4fn.bsky.social at @qmuleecs.bsky.social. There are puzzles to solve and pictures to colour in, then fold into a cute booklet. Bonus info: classroom links with computational thinking. cs4fn.blog/halloweenzine/

It is #BlackHistoryMonth Read about Marc Hannah, a founder of Silicon Graphics, the original company pioneering fast graphics computers, and behind graphics pipelines that allowed realistic CGI in games and films. cs4fn.blog/2024/10/31/m...

Unlock STEM career awareness - without leaving the classroom! The Summer 2025 term feedback survey reported that 87% of teachers found the I'm a... activity to be extremely or very effective in raising students awareness of STEM careers. imascientist.org.uk/book-activity

October is cyber security awareness month though every month needs to be really. Read about the CS4FN take on cyber security at cs4fn.blog/cyber-securi... including cyber security at the movies and more...

Lego Computer Science...Algorithms are core to computer science. So what is an algorithm? If you have ever used the instructions from a Lego set then you have followed algorithms for fun yourself and you have been a computational agent. Find out more ... cs4fn.blog/2025/09/26/l...

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY September 12 2017 Edie Schlain Windsor died. She was a senior systems engineer at IBM who led the case that made gay marriage legal in the US cs4fn.blog/2023/02/19/e...

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#ComputingByAllForAll - YESTERDAY September 9 1947 Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug (a moth) cs4fn.blog/2023/01/01/s...

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY September 10, 1955 Bonnie E. John born Human Computer Interaction expert Read about Cognitive Crash Test Dummies cs4fn.blog/2023/01/30/c...

My 2nd new strand of work using Maton's LCT @lctcentre.bsky.social presented at #UKICER2025 on the problem of teaching skills (graduate, workplace, practical) with theory, visualising using the semantic plane, suggests should integrate with waves between theory and skills dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Today I presented 2 posters on new strands of work using Maton's LCT @lctcentre.bsky.social at #UKICER2025. The first was on the problem of ensuring students understand the 'rules of the game' in learning to program are (code quality matters) using the epistemic plane. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#ComputingByAllForAll - September 2 1815 Mary Edward dies Mary and Eliza Edwards: the mother and daughter human computers who helped sailors navigate at sea with their work over 50 years for the nautical almanac. Read about them at cs4fn.blog/2025/09/03/m...

#ComputingByAllForAll September is World Alzheimer’s month Freddie Figgers invented a GPS tracker shoe for those with Alzheimer’s disease. cs4fn.blog/2022/10/12/f...

Computer Science at Sea We think of computers and electronics generally as machines that must stay dry (not least because you can electrocute yourself ...don't do this at home!) but there are lots of ways that computer science is of help at, on, watching over or under the sea... cs4fn.blog/the-sea/

For many of us, the deep sea is a bit of a mystery. But an exciting interactive digital tool at the National Museum of the Royal Navy brings the seabed to life! Find out about their augmented reality sandbox and its link to the voyage of HMS Challenger - by Daniel Gill cs4fn.blog/2025/08/18/t...

If you were designing an underwater robot, what might you learn from the long extinct ammonite fossils and why might you need to program an ammonite brain? cs4fn.blog/2025/08/10/a...

Film Futures: how might movie plots change with Computer Science... Just for fun, The Lord of the Rings if there was Computer Science in Middle Earth (and then the serious reality on our Earth) cs4fn.blog/2025/08/04/f...

In an age of satellite navigation when ships have high-tech navigation systems that tell them exactly where they are, on accurate charts that show exactly where dangers lurk, why do we still keep working lighthouses? Because it makes for a more dependable system... cs4fn.blog/2025/08/02/w...

Free computing mini magazines to read and puzzles to solve for primary-aged children (roughtly 8-12 yo) from @cs4fn.bsky.social - get your PDFs here :) cs4fndownloads.wordpress.com/primary/ - there are also printable certificates for puzzle book attempters and completers.

Didn't know this! Love a bit of internet history :)

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY July 23 1952 Mark Weiser was born visionary proponent of calm and ubiquitous computing (and drummer for the first band to livestream over the Internet) cs4fn.blog/2025/07/23/t...