Computing With Art Computerphile

Summary

After a recent collaboration with an They're called 'Finite State Automata" and occupy the centre of Chomsky's Hierarchy - Professor Brailsford explains the ultimate ... Abstraction is at the heart of everything to do with RISC processors kept things simple, but when do you need to make your hardware more complicated and when can you leave it ... You can't beat physics. Why the chip manufacturers are heading for a wall. We asked nano-scientist Phil Moriarty Professor of ... Bubbles in the pipeline? Some of the basic operations at the heart of the CPU explained by Dr Steve Bagley. EXTRA BITS: ... Email is an unwelcome distraction, so CS legend Don Knuth simply doesn't use it. He hasn't done since 1990. Brady asked him ... IP addresses explained - what do these mysterious numbers and dots mean and how are they used? Richard Mortier explains the ... Why do we have 8 bits in a byte? Professor Brailsford on the origins of the humble byte. Why Use Binary? UTF8 is fantastic, but people still have translation issues with some characters - Tom explains why. More from Tom Scott: ... Colossus was one of the very first electronic, special purpose, How did punch card systems work? Professor Brailsford delves further into the era of mainframe Audible free book: audible.com/ What does a GPU do differently to a CPU and why don't we use them for everything? First of a series from Jem Davies, VP of ...