Help shape the Mayor's AI and Jobs Taskforce to understand the impact of AI on Londoners’ jobs, and how we can support: what's AI actually doing to your work, your sector, your city? Take our @mayoroflondon.bsky.social survey; join the online discussion; RT! www.london.gov.uk/talk-london/...
Problem solving in maths is about more than getting the right answer.
Visualisation, discussion, reflection and curiosity all help pupils develop stronger mathematical thinking across the key stages.
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Now published in The Computer Journal: my editorial, “In Memoriam: C. A. R. Hoare”:
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A brief tribute to Tony Hoare’s extraordinary contributions to computer science, and to the journal’s particular connection to that legacy through the publication of “Quicksort” in 1962.
Want to think about how artificial intelligent agents could work together? Try reading Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social Actually about alien intelligence, as with his other books, it explores other forms of intelligence (and consciousness) in a gripping way.
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Introducing problem solving as playful exploration
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Just saw the really inspiring Royal Shakespeare Company musical "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" about William Kamkwamba, the young teenager who worked out how to make a wind turbine from scrap to bring electricity to his Malawi village. Here is a CS4FN article about him
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Had a great time teaching the computer science of algorithms by teaching magic tricks in Dundee as part of the Digital Schoolhouse Festival of Play. How can you do a magic trick, moving a card invisibly from one place to another when you don't know how you did it? www.abertay.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...
What do you do when you have run out of funds to build your revolutionary machine that will change the world? Charles Babbage turned to game AI. Find out why he gave up having decided he could build it in our latest blog...
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Chief Digital Officer for London
"Human-centred design recommendations to help The National Archives shape the future of the data economy"
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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Education Endowment Foundation
Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN)
Tom Gauld
Professor Tom Crick
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Victorian Innovator, Charles Babbage, had big ideas. He intended to build the first ever general purpose computer, despite living in the age of steam …
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Human-centred design recommendations to help The National Archives shape the future of the data economy.
William’s wind turbine made from local wood, scrap metal and a destroyed bicycle by CS4FN [SPOILER ALERT] “The boy who harnessed the wind” is a new musical from the Royal Shakespe…
