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Interviewed by Hansen Hsu on 2025-09-24 © Abstraction is at the heart of everything to do with Professor Brailsford discusses Charles Babbage, the genius behind the Analytical Engine. The Professor's notes: ... Email is an unwelcome distraction, so CS legend Don Knuth simply doesn't use it. He hasn't done since 1990. Brady asked him ... Play around with one of the first Von Neumann machines (well, in simulation!) Professor Brailsford shows us what EDSAC was ... RISC processors kept things simple, but when do you need to make your hardware more complicated and when can you leave it ...

Delving into the various timescales I hereby your You can't beat physics. Why the chip manufacturers are heading for a wall. We asked nano-scientist Phil Moriarty Professor of ... Making fonts look good at low resolutions - many thought the problem insolvable - two men started Adobe and proved them wrong ... Virtual Reality is once again in fashion, devices like Oculus Rift & Hololens push VR & AR into the spotlight, Professor Steve ... Von Neumann Architecture is how nearly all Why do we have 8 bits in a byte? Professor Brailsford on the origins of the humble byte. Why Use Binary?

Even the most impressive soft robots have an external control system. What if the software could be running on soft hardware? Just how far can we go with processing speed? Physicist Professor Phil Moriarty talks about the hard limits of Bubbles in the pipeline? Some of the basic operations at the heart of the CPU explained by Dr Steve Bagley. EXTRA BITS: ...