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Ruth Hoffmann

Klondike Solitaire with Quantum Safety

The Klondike Solitaire card game, popularised by the Windows Solitaire program, is notable for being surprisingly difficult to win. This research explores how unwinnable deals can be detected and avoided using…

Finding Categorically Similar Images

Computers can categorise images incredibly accurately. For example, my house is categorised as a small wooden cottage. Can we use this information to find other similar houses? Google returns 11.2 billion images of…

Human-Centric Machine Learning

One primary goal of Machine Learning (ML) development is to create computational systems capable of learning from real-world data and making informed predictions. While ML applications demonstrate benefits, unexpected…

Immersive exploration of Climate Futures

Climate change poses an existential threat to much of what we treasure and indeed to life on our planet. there is no planet B. In this exhibit we use game technology to explore potential climate futures. Based on…

Web Technologies

As part of a broad restructuring of our postgraduate teaching, we are refactoring and refocussing our teaching of web technologies. Our aim is to give a solid understanding of core concepts and technologies, to give…