Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.
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Major companies around the world rely on third-party code. What happens when a programmer has a political point to make?
A new AI tool that writes computer code on demand has programmers considering their future.
Developing software used to require programming skills. Today, a growing number of people are building websites, games and even AI programs without writing a line of code.
The public holds self-driving cars to incredibly high safety standards – and we’re working to meet them.
Coding is beneficial to children, irrespective of their career path later on in life.
Toys and games that involve friends and family members are more than just fun: they can foster new skills, challenge children to work in a team and encourage thinking and idea development.
Most of today’s computer languages make it hard for programmers to protect users’ privacy and security. The fix is to take those tasks out of human hands entirely.
Computer programming is best learned through practice, but students in developing economies don’t always have access to desktop or laptop computers. Mobile phones may be the solution.
David Glance sits down with Apple co-founder and inventor of the Apple 1 computer, Steve Wozniak, to talk about his life, his thoughts on Apple then and now and how technology is changing the world.
If you’re creating an app for an iPad, then why not create it on an iPad too. Is Apple’s Swift move to do this just another step towards the end of the personal computer?
When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
While translation technology has improved dramatically, there are some significant hurdles.
The FIRST robotics competition brings school students together to build a robot to complete a challenge. And it’s an inspiring way to encourage interest in STEM.
Hackathons are all the rage, but if the participants follow through on the results, they can be a powerful instrument for generating innovation.
It may have been big, slow and lacking in much memory but almost seven decades on we have a lot to thank the creators of Australia’s first programmable computing machine.
Computer coding should be thought of as teaching children another language. If they get the basics right at an early age, who knows where their new-found language skills can take them.
Math isn’t prejudiced, goes the argument. But these arithmetic programs can learn bias from the data fed into them by human beings, leading to unfair treatment and discrimination.
How can we prepare children for a tech world while fighting the distractions it inevitably brings?
If machines run by artificial intelligence take over the world it’s only because we programmed them to do so. So how can fuzzy logic help us prevent that?
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Business IT & Logistics, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Science Education, Deakin University
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Professor of IT, Southern Cross University
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ESRC Future Research Leader Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Graduate & International Research, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Mathematics, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Volcanology and Geoscience Communication, University of Twente and Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD Student in Mathematics, University of Illinois Chicago
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
