The Power of Words As a teenager, I discovered the Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 , by Gabriel Fauré, singing in my school choir at the age of 16. It’s a sublime piece. It elevates the spirit. And almost 50 years later, I return to this song to appreciate the...
You wonder with all the talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) how someone hasn’t come up with a way to check for whopping spelling mistakes and errors. The BBC published a report after the Liverpool-Tottenham match (March 31) and the caption under the video...
Minter Dialogue with Simon La Fosse Simon La Fosse is founder and chairman at his eponymous firm, La Fosse Associates, an award-winning recruitment agency founded in 2007 and specialised in technology recruitment. While based in the UK, they also have a presence in LA...
Minter Dialogue with Dennis Berkhof and Marco van der WerfDennis Berkhof and Marco van der Werf are the co-founders of BIT Students Foundation, based in Amsterdam, a not-for-profit way for students to learn to code for free. The Bit Students...
In a recent episode of the podcast New Books in Science, I listened to Marie Hicks talk about how women went from being well-regarded coders and decoders during WWII to the situation we have today where there is a massive deficit of women in coding. In her...