Computer Science

Sciences & Technology
Quiz
Can you solve the skeleton puzzle?
‘Minimum obstacle skeletons’ could be used to optimise mass telecommunications and transport networks. But first, we need to solve a puzzle

Sciences & Technology
Research
The 100-year journey from quantum science to quantum technology
To celebrate the Year of Quantum, a physicist explains why this ‘spooky’ science is destined to become even more important in every area of our lives

Sciences & Technology
Under the Microscope
Celebrating the “grandmother” of optimisation on International Women in Maths Day
Pioneering 95-year-old Australian mathematician and statistician Alison Harcourt AO has made a big impact on her field, and on her colleagues

Sciences & Technology
From sand to superposition: A key step towards a powerful silicon quantum computer
A major obstacle to quantum computing has been overcome by modifying a common industrial method to create large arrays of single atoms in a silicon chip

Arts & Culture
Your face is muted
In times of remote communication and notorious connection problems, how do we empathise with each other through the curtain of technology when non-verbal cues are missing?

Politics & Society
Trump, nipples and the hypocrisy of the social media giants
It took a mob to attack the US Capitol before then President Trump’s incitement was banned by the social media companies, but these same companies routinely censor the marginalised

Politics & Society
Podcasts
The politics of hacking
Associate Professor Dunbar-Hester discusses the cultures and the communities of the digital era, with a focus on media and tech activists

Health & Medicine
How ‘artificial societies’ are helping plan our COVID-19 response
Computational social science has come to the fore in the COVID-19 response, allowing policy makers to trial policies on ‘artificial societies’ and see the results – before doing it in real life

Sciences & Technology
Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer
A machine learning framework has been created to precisely locate atom-sized quantum bits in silicon – a crucial step for building a large-scale silicon quantum computer

Sciences & Technology
It’s time to retire Lena from computer science
Why has a pornographic image been widely used to train computer scientists and their algorithms? And what sort of message does it send to women?