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Author: peter

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

Tue 21 Nov 2023 peter Computing

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

Wed 15 Nov 2023 peter Computing, Frontpage

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

Mon 13 Nov 2023 peter Frontpage

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

Sun 5 Nov 2023 peter Frontpage, General

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[…]

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Why the web is such a mess / DNS, DHCP, trackers and ads – followup

Tue 17 Oct 2023 peter Computing

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[…]

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Encryption – and VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) – followup

Tue 19 Sep 2023 peter Computing

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[…]

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Animal and bird spotting with Science and Technology – followup

Tue 15 Aug 2023 peter Computing

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[…]

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Some thoughts on trends in AI – followup

Tue 13 Jun 2023 peter Computing

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[…]

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Web3 – The Future of the Internet – followup

Tue 9 May 2023 peter Computing

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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