Stories
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The sweet sound of synthetic speech
After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
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Surviving fatness
It took time for LMM to discover that being fat and poor are mutually exclusive. Here she describes resisting fatphobia by being visible and leaning in to the stereotype.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Computers
Date: 1982-1991Reference: PSY/HAN/2/5Part of: Handyside, John Duncan (1923-2005) Papers- Archives and manuscripts
"Computers"
Date: 1985-1988Reference: SA/BSR/E/10Part of: British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS): archives- Journals
Computers in libraries.
Date: ©1988-- Journals
- Online
Computers & chemistry
Date: ©1976-©2002- Journals
Computers in biomedical research.