Articles on Computers
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For much of his adult life, painter and scholar Harold Cohen has been working in collaboration with a computer to make visual art. Cohen has worked almost continuously on this creative artificial intelligence…
Handling crowds on major events is a huge challenge for organisers, and the Olympics Organising Committee will be dealing with some of the biggest crowds there are. Simulating such crowds could be one…
Earlier this week, Senator Chris Evans announced A$5 million worth of science communication grants for 63 projects as part of the Unlocking Australia’s Potential program. We were successful in getting…
Computers are being used to assess the effectiveness of doctor-patient communication, thanks to new research. The technology…
A new computerised system can differentiate between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration. It has the potential to train…
A type of bacteria that “eats” iron, leaving behind a surface of magnets, could be used to produce environmentally friendly…
As mentioned already on this site and others, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed British mathematician Alan Turing. The outline of his remarkable life and sad ending has by now…
Scientists have developed transparent, flexible memory chips which could aid the development of futuristic see-through gadgets…
Research into the cognition of babies and small children may help scientists program computers to think and learn more like…
Predicting the future is a risky business. If it wasn’t, we’d all be very wealthy by now. The Danish physicist Neils Bohr famously opined: “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”. Despite…
What do iPhones, Twitter, Netflix, cleaner cities, safer cars, state-of-the-art environmental management and modern medical diagnostics have in common? They are all made possible by Moore’s Law. Moore’s…
You may have read the British Government is being petitioned to grant a posthumous pardon to one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and most successful codebreakers, Alan Turing. You may also have…
The widespread belief that technological devices such as computers and mobile phones are increasingly eating into our sleep…






