computers – Page 8 – Ruth Stalker-Firth

Codebreaking: Humans are the weakest link

People are the weakest link in all computer systems. We hear about the best cryptography money can buy: integrity checking,

[update 20/8/20: My guide to human-computer interaction is now available over on Udemy.] The recent furore over the 2012 Olympics Logo reminds

A structural engineer once told me that he would always win pictionary if he was teamed with another engineer. Structural

When Jurassic Park was on at the cinema, I remember laughing out loud with a couple of my computing mates

In 1996, I listened to Lotfi Zadeh, inventor of fuzzy logic, give his keynote speech at the ‘Artificial Intelligence in