Posts Tagged: computer

  • Sherlock Holmes sits in a chair behind him is a wall of heiroglyphics-representing our word of the week cipher.

    Ciphers and codes—zeros and naughts

    Is there a difference between cipher and code? I have always considered cipher and code to be synonymous—meaning a message translated into symbols to hide its meaning (indeed this is how a lot of dictionaries define them). But consider Morse Code—it was designed not to be secret but to be easier to transmit and receive […]

  • Robot B9 from the 1960s TV sci-fi program Lost in Space with speech bubble "It does not compute"

    I reckon its a computer

    Is computer a new word? If there was a word that you would expect to have been coined in our times it would be computer. A computer is defined as an electronic device for storing and processing data. It does so in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program (according to […]