Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) 20 years celebration

When: Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 4:33 PM - 7:00 PM
Where:

The Computer Science for Fun Project is 20 years old!

The illusion of good software design

Using examples of good/bad healthcare device design (and illusions) we’ll explore how programmers can prevent human error with good interaction design. When disasters occur, a person is often blamed, but when people make mistakes, don’t blame the person, fix the program so they can’t, and save lives.

This is a free public-engagement talk, open to all (suitable for 11+) from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. The department's outreach project, CS4FN (Computer Science for Fun) is 20 years old and we are celebrating with this special event! CS4FN was created by Paul Curzon and the late Peter McOwan, and we have been inspiring (and teaching) students, teachers and the general public about interdisciplinary computer science research since 2005, when we released and mailed out our first free magazine issue to schools and gave it away to the general public as part of our exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition that year. You can download all of our free magazines as PDFs here.

There will be free table magic from 4.30pm and again after the talk, along with some snacks and cake (it is a birthday celebration after all!).

Date: Tuesday 6th May 2025

Time: 4:30-7pm

Location:
Peston Lecture Theatre
Graduate Centre
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End, London E1 4NS
Enter via Bancroft Road entrance

Book a free ticket by clicking here.

The event is free but donations to the CS4FN project are welcome to help us continue our work inspiring young people about Computer Science and providing resources to schools for free.