Detail from a 1908 chart showing Sandy Island in the Coral Sea There's been a lot of talk about the accuracy of maps recently, part...

Yesterday it was rather hard to avoid The Hobbit's premiere in Wellington - but as computer scientists we're much more interested...

There's been a spate of articles  ( like this one ) recently about the potential risks and ethics of lethal AIs - drones that can acqu...

Ursula Frost Ursula Frost, a 95 year old Auckland woman, who worked with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during WWII has finally received ...

Let's get this clear before we start - the headline says "the world's oldest  working computer," not "the world...

An ICT1201 My colleague Bob Doran , a keen computing historian, has written this blog post. Ruth Engleback must be close to the ear...

What do whales have to do with the recent US Elections? No, neither candidate campaigned on a pro or anti-whaling ticket. If you read this...