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Cyber security for the AI age

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Talk like a cyber security expert Cyber security — the protections and measures taken against digital threats, namely cyber criminals Generative AI — artificial intelligence that is capable of generating media (such as text or images). It is estimated that software supply chain attacks hit 60% of companies in 2021.

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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

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Published: Love them or hate them, chatbots are having an increasing role in the technological space, now that artificial intelligence has developed to a stage where they can be genuinely useful in fields such as healthcare, defence and finance. TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST. I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

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Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer algorithms and systems able to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. This can involve technical careers in computing and software but, given the significant human aspect involved in cyber security, also involves social sciences and humanities.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

For that was a time when the concepts of computing were first being worked out—and through approaches like cybernetics and the nascent area of artificial intelligence, people started exploring the broader scientific implications of computational ideas. It’s important, by the way, to distinguish this from computer science.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

. “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. It didn’t really come to light until he was at BBN, but while at Lincoln Lab Ed had made what would eventually become his first lasting contribution to computer science. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure.