Artcodes take the advent calendar into the digital age

It’s a long time since children were satisfied with a printed picture when they prized open […]

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Tags: advent, Alice Angus, art, Christmas, EPSRC, HORIZON Digital Economy Research Institute. HORIZON, School of Computer Science

Puzzles, robots and Raspberry Pi – Computer Science activity day at Firbeck Academy

In March, a team from the School of Computer Science ran a computing activity day at […]

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Tags: community, local, Nottingham, Nottingham University Samworth Academies Trust, Nottingham University Samworth Academy, NUSA, Ofsted, school, School of Computer Science, teaching

Professor Tom Rodden announced as EPSRC’s Deputy CEO

Professor Tom Rodden, School of Computer Science, has been appointed as the Deputy CEO of the […]

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If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Over the past 20 years Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made a remarkable progress. While AI has been proven to be much more difficult than believed by its early pioneers, its inexorable progress over the past 50 years suggests that H. Simon may have been right when he wrote in 1956 “machines will be capable… of doing any work a man can do.” If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Moshe Y Vardi, School of Computer Science

LGBT: Plenty to celebrate

The University is marking LGBT History Month with a series of events celebrating its LGBT staff […]

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Tags: Bambi, Call Me Kuchu, Dr Max Biddulph, LGBT History Month, LGBTQ Staff Network, Marie-Pierre Pruvot, Professor David Brailsford, School of Computer Science, School of Education, The Enigma Problem: Alan Turing and the British Establishment

The Enigma problem – Alan Turing and the British establishment

Join Dr Max Biddulph, Chair of the LGBTQ Staff Network, and Professor David Brailsford, School of Computer Science, for a public lecture addressing ‘The Enigma problem – Alan Turing and the British establishment’. Part of LGBT History Month.

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