Art history – Mary Fedden, Norman Thelwell and Charles Tunnicliffe
Please note that the Art History meeting scheduled for 28th Nov has been deferred. It will now be held on Tuesday 23rd January 2024 12 noon. How to join the[…]
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Although now retired, I worked in Software Engineering most of my career in areas such as Telecoms, Finance, Cloud Computing and AI.
Automating the home with Home Assistant – follow-up
This is the follow-up post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. In last months meeting we touched on using Home Assistant to host AdGuard … as there were[…]
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AI for everyone library
The Artificial Intelligence for everyone library is now available https://u3acommunities.org/interest-groups/computing/ai-for-everyone/ Artificial Intelligence forums are also available for both beginners and enthusiasts.
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New discussion forum
We’ve just enabled our new discussion forum – see https://u3acommunities.org/forums/. Why not register yourself and join in. This will be a great way to follow-up on meetings, raise questions and[…]
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Tom Holloway awarded medal
Our own Tom Holloway has been awarded a medal for “contribution to friendship between peoples and special achievements in international activities” by the embassy of the republic of Kazakhstan. The[…]
Read moreWhy the web is such a mess / DNS, DHCP, trackers and ads – followup
This is the followup post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. In this meeting we have a video by Tom Scott and a presentation by Peter Lord, both[…]
Read moreEncryption – and VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) – followup
This is the followup post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. This week we have two security related videos to watch, both by Tom Scott. In the first[…]
Read moreAnimal and bird spotting with Science and Technology – followup
This is the followup post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. Chaired by Peter Lord of Wokingham U3A we will start with a general discussion about expectations and[…]
Read moreSome thoughts on trends in AI – followup
This is the followup post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. So much has been/is being written about AI recently that it’s sometimes hard to know what to[…]
Read moreWeb3 – The Future of the Internet – followup
This is the followup post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. In this talk by Peter Lord of U3A Wokingham we discussed how Tim Berners-Lee’s original World-Wide-Web inventions[…]
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