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Audible 30 Day Free Trial: http://www.audible.com/computerphile How computers helped revolutionise the way aircraft traffic is managed. John Linford, Chairman of the TNMOC Members’ Club explains. Thanks to The National Museum of Computing: http://bit.ly/ComputerphileTNMOC Thanks to atchistory for the archive photographs: http://bit.ly/ComputerphileATC http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer

Routers carry the traffic of the internet, we talk to Dr Richard Mortier about how they work and what happened to YouTube when a government censorship exercise went wrong. IP Addresses: http://youtu.be/L6bDA5FK6gs Floating Point Numbers: http://youtu.be/PZRI1IfStY0 The VR Cave: http://youtu.be/STMcWUtQr1Y Busy Beaver Turing Machines: http://youtu.be/CE8UhcyJS0I nb: the prefixes that Dr Mortier did in his head

Just like humans organising to meet for coffee, computers need ways of organising themselves. Heidi Howard, of the System Research Group at University of Cambridge explains the basics. Could We Ban Encryption?: https://youtu.be/ShUyfk4QB-8 How Blurs & Filters work: https://youtu.be/C_zFhWdM4ic PAXOS: https://youtu.be/s8JqcZtvnsM Geometric Face Recognition: https://youtu.be/BCBZPtZCI7w http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited

They starting coding aged 12 on the family TV and turned their passion into a big business. From Robin Hood to Chicken Run, the list of videogames is Dizzying. We went to the National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham to meet The Oliver Twins. EXTRA BITS: https://youtu.be/tVZ-ZTndKdg Sega Retro Game Coding: https://youtu.be/GH94fKtGr0M The Oliver Twins on

More about Huffman trees and how they can even work for a trinary system. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. See the full list of Brady’s video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

Safety in AI is important, but more important is to work it out before working out the AI itself. Rob Miles on AI safety. Brain Scanner: https://youtu.be/TQ0sL1ZGnQ4 AI Worst Case Scenario – Deadly Truth of AI: https://youtu.be/tcdVC4e6EV4 The Singularity & Friendly AI: https://youtu.be/uA9mxq3gneE AI Self Improvement: https://youtu.be/5qfIgCiYlfY Why Asimov’s Three Laws Don’t Work: https://youtu.be/7PKx3kS7f4A Thanks

UTF8 is fantastic, but people still have translation issues with some characters – Tom explains why. More from Tom Scott: http://www.youtube.com/user/enyay http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. See the full list of Brady’s video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

What’s in a name badge? Well in this case a microprocessor, LCD display, Gyro, WiFi and all sorts of things. Rob Miles discusses the Electromagnetic Field 2016 name badge. Physics of Computer Chips: https://youtu.be/xkLAhU74f3s Arduino Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckpldkR4DgxF29isj_psCx89 Password Cracking: https://youtu.be/7U-RbOKanYs Gamer’s Paradise: https://youtu.be/HZzdXR0bV8o Thanks to Nottingham Hackspace for the location http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This

“Just send me a PDF!” – but what kind of PDF? As Professor Brailsford explains, PDF is simply a wrapper which can contain a variety of joys! https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady

Just who chose Computer Science before it existed as an academic subject? Emeritus Professor David Brailsford talks about how he started as a computer scientist. To be continued in further videos…. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a

Audible 30 day free Trial: http://www.audible.com/computerphile Variable Data Printing (VDP) allows industrial printers to vary details on bulk print runs – Why? and how does it work? We asked Steve Simske; Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham as well as Director & Chief Technologist at HP Labs’ Security Printing Solutions NOTE: at 1min 30secs,

Most of us deal with data compression on a daily basis, but what is it and how does it work? Professor David Brailsford introduces compression with regards to text and pictures. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. (some questions from Brady, in case you are confused!) Computer Science

We rely on computers day-to-day, for most of us they are no longer just a luxury. What does it mean from a philosophical view-point; to live in the age of Hyper History? Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire, and Fellow of St

A search engine can return thousands of web pages, but how does it know whether they are relevant or not? First step is how to measure relevance, as Dr Max Wilson explains. Search Engine Page Rank: https://youtu.be/v7n7wZhHJj8 How Search Engines Treat Data: https://youtu.be/vrjAIBgxm_w Industrial Light-Field Magic: https://youtu.be/ZIfn2Ocy9RU $5 Computer – Raspberry Pi Zero: https://youtu.be/WR0ghM3U0M4 Why

This giant robot arm (usually seen on the factory floor) is being used to research the effects of in flight comfort for the VR Hyperspace project. Many thanks to Dr Florian Soyka of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics for showing us their Cyber Motion Simulator. Public Key Cryptography: http://youtu.be/GSIDS_lvRv4 How Computer Memory Works:

When you relocate a robot, how does it work out where it is? Dr Ayse Kucukyilmaz explains how there’s uncertainty at every turn. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. More at

When your computer crashes and you lose everything it’s annoying at best – What if you could fix it with blu tack? Jason Fitzpatrick from The Centre for Computing History on drawbacks of the Sinclair ZX81 People’s Computer: Sinclair ZX81 : https://youtu.be/SFAWHB2BKOg Steve Furber on BBC Micro: https://youtu.be/y4WG549i3YY Colossus & Bletchley Park: https://youtu.be/9HH-asvLAj4 Rob Miles

Squash-Pong needs a ball and a paddle – Dr Isaac Triguero continues the PyGame mini-series. Watch part 11 before it goes live: https://youtu.be/VyrAVNoEf0g Thorsten & Isaac’s Python programming book: https://bit.ly/2p3r5IT https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed by Sean Riley and Isaac Triguero and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of

Professor Brailsford on why Goto is frowned upon, and yes, we didn’t mention Dijkstra this time. Note – the Japanese characters for Eiichi Goto’s name should read: 後藤英一 Dijkstra’s Algorithm: https://youtu.be/GazC3A4OQTE https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a

Check out today’s sponsor Fasthosts for all of your UK web hosting needs: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/computerphile Hello World on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis – its quite an involved process to write Hello World on a machine that doesn’t even have an operating system. Matt Phillips, of Big Evil Corp demostrates the ‘wonky R’ More from Matt: https://bit.ly/C_BEC Thanks

The Raspberry Pi made waves when it was announced, but what is it? How is it built and what can you do with it? Matt Lloyd, IoT engineer at Ciseco and member of Nottingham’s Hackspace talks it through. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister

When bitcoin is spent, remainders are re-encoded & combined – how do you separate out any ill-gotten gains from the legitimate hard-earned lucre? Outlining his team’s solution: Professor Ross Anderson of the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. NB comments disabled purely due to huge amounts of spam. Why Bitcoin isn’t cash: Coming Soon Elliptic Curve

GPT-2, the Language model that shocked the world with its entirely fictitious story about the unicorns inhabiting a secret South American valley. Rob Miles explains More on GPT-2: Coming Soon More from Rob Miles: http://bit.ly/Rob_Miles_YouTube Thanks to Nottingham Hackspace for providing the filming location: http://bit.ly/notthack https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited

Arguably the first personal computer, the Altair 8800 is the machine that inspired Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Jason Fitzpatrick from the Centre for Computing History explains. THIS VIDEO WITHOUT HIGH PITCHED WHINE: https://youtu.be/6LYRgrqJgDc Holy Grail of AI: https://youtu.be/tlS5Y2vm02c Altair 8800 Extra Bits: https://youtu.be/NzCB9-Njdsc Nuggets of Data Gold: https://youtu.be/Zel2NCKej50 Sinclair ZX81: COMING SOON http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets

The second part of Dr Isaac Triguero’s walkthrough of creating a Pong-like game in Python, using PyGame. Part 00 : https://youtu.be/JRLdbt7vK-E Part 10 : https://youtu.be/Nk3Och0I4ZY Thorsten & Isaac’s Python programming book: https://bit.ly/2p3r5IT https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed by Sean Riley and Isaac Triguero and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the

The famous computer game Pong re-imagined as a visceral fiery experience. Matthew and Ian built ‘Rule Zero’ for EMF camp, most people call it ‘Fire Pong’ Fire Pong / Rule Zero in detail: https://youtu.be/ZoZMMg1r_Oc Google Deep Dream: https://youtu.be/BsSmBPmPeYQ FPS & Digital Video: https://youtu.be/yniSnYtkrwQ Password Cracking: https://youtu.be/7U-RbOKanYs Fire Pong / Rule Zero Documentation: http://bit.ly/firedocs Fire Pong

Exponential growth is a term that’s used a lot, but our intuition can play tricks on understanding it. Dr Tim Muller takes us through some examples that demonstrate just how quickly things get out of hand. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of

Continuing our look at historic computers that feature in the book Ready Player One, Jason from Centre for Computing History shows us the TRS80 Centre for Computing History behind the scenes: https://youtu.be/nCAMMKsbEvw Centre for Computing History’s “Retro Tech Archive” Channel: http://www.bit.ly/C_RTA Centre for Computing History: http://www.bit.ly/C_ComputerMuseum https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and

Hear Brian Kernighan on how he got into programming, the successors of C and the biggest challenges… Watch Part 2 before it’s live!: https://youtu.be/VVpRj3Po6K4 https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. More

When Sun added network abilities to a messaging feature, one user managed to contact more people than he’d bargained for. Dr Julian Onions takes us through the rwall incident of 1987. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a