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Professor Brailsford recalls the advent of

No internet, no networking; just a screen and a keyboard, or a pile of cards to punch holes in; mainframes were a world apart from ...

BWK, Professor Brian Kernighan visited Nottingham, so Professor Brailsford couldn't resist an 'on-camera' chat about

Games like rogue were revolutionary for terminal based

Just what is a pipeline in the computer science sense? We asked Computer Science guru Professor Brian Kernighan Why ...

The highest signed 32bit integer is a ticking timebomb - sort of... Dr Tim Muller explains why it's his #MegaFavNumber This ...

Commonly used grep was written overnight, but why and how did it get its name? Professor Brian Kernighan explains. EXTRA ...

http3 is here, but it wasn't an easy solution, Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London explains why he can't decide ...

We've all got to the edge of the wifi coverage, but the idea of coverage produces a network problem, the Hidden Node Problem.

Why do computers have such a hard time showing TV footage? Dr Steve Bagley unlaces the problem. WARNING There is a short ...

How does an operating system juggle different programs? Dr Steve Bagley explains Context Switching. EXTRA BITS: ...

Professor Brailsford has been toiling away on a faithful recreation of

With the news Apple are implementing Virtual Memory on the iPad, Dr Steve Bagley takes us through what virtual memory is and ...