QMUL’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science runs an annual series of free Saturday morning computing workshops, in partnership with the Royal Institution (of Ri Christmas Lec…

Network image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay What does a diagram sound like? What does the shape of a sound feel like? Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London have been finding out. At firs…

An activity for children, for Hallowe’en. Mostly just for fun (colouring in and puzzle solving) but as always we have sneaked in a bit of computational thinking ideas too.

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Academy awards Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships 2025

Machines getting wet… We think of computers and electronics generally as machines that must stay dry (not least because you can electrocute yourself …don’t do this at home!) but t…

Join us for our workshop on neurodivergent inclusion in research at MINDS - hear from neurodivergent people and academics!

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Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key idea behind language design is that they s…

Annie Easley. NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Annie Easley was a pioneer both as a computer programmer but also as a champion of women and minorities into computer science. She went from…

Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Video games can be a very successful way to do citizen science, getting ordinary people involved in research. Sea Hero Quest is an extremely successful example. …

“Rainwater tank, about 200 litres” by Jeuwre, available under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence, via Wikimedia. What we have here on the right is a water butt also known as a rainwater tank. These…

‘Smithfield Utah’ teapot created by Alan Butler, 2021, photographed by John Flanagan and made available under a CC 4.0 licence, via Wikipedia’s page on the Utah teapot. My friends…

The beautiful (and quite possibly wi-fi ready, with those antennas) Victoria Crowned Pigeon. Not a carrier pigeon admittedly, but much more photogenic.Image by Foto-Rabe from Pixabay There’s …

Image of Hey by Jeff Dahl / CC BY-SA ( How data is represented is an important part of computer science. There are lots of ways numbers can be represented. Choosing a good representation can make t…