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Computer Science is no more about computers than the music industry is about microphones

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cs4fn 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

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

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

Puzzles

Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science Hotel Doors and Keycards A Pixel Puzzle Eating at Quonk A Code Breaking Puzzle The Maze

Limericks, Poems and other wordy, arty stuff

There was a programmer from Crewe... There was a recursion that stopped... There was a computer that broke... The best of the Summer 2005 Limerick Challenge The best of the Spring 2006 Limerick Challenge Latest Limerick Challenge

Magic

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

Jokes

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

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

CS at the 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

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

Software Engineering

Back to the drawing board Spurs to win!

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

Computer Vision

Playing Virtual Air Guitar Getting an angle on the brain Monsters on the Cards

Computer Graphics

Would Da Vinci Code?

Digital Performance

Virtual Gorillaz Playing Virtual Air Guitar

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

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? Idenitiy Theft Phonie Phones

Women in Computer Science

Great Women Thinkers: "The woman of the future?!?"

Illusions

An illusion of symmetry: Chunk it! Pepper's Ghost Make Gorillaz appear in your own Pepper's Ghost The Hollow Face Illusion

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

Mobile Computing

Gadgets that change the world Fizzees: the digital pet that cares for YOU Humans navigating by music Hunt with the lions

Design For All

Phetch: Can you tell what it is yet? Locked into 20 Questions Cyborg Super Senses

Computers and 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

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?

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

Binary

Unlocking a Dead Man's Chest The Hamsters of Nim

Virtual 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

Networks and the web

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!

Chips

Fancy some green chips? From a handful of sand to a fistful of dollars A powerful card The Tale of the Stormy Petrel

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

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

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?

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

Computer Science and 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-

Computer Science and 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-

Computer Science and 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

Computer Science and Astronomy

Second star to the right and emailed by morning Which way to that pesky planet? Spotting Stardust Brain the Size of a Planet?

Computer Science and Geography

You can help predict climate change Zoom in on your home from outer space

Computer Science and Physics

Virtual Physics Standing on the Toes of Giants Quantum Virtual Reality

Computer Science and Art

Portraits from the other side

Computer Science and Sport

Football Crazy Fizzees: the digital pet that cares for YOU

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