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Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...systems throughout much of the NHS on Friday was preventable, explains Conor Deane-McKenna...[Highwaymen - Sixteen String Jack, Claude Duval, Tom King and Dick Turpin - celebrate their crimes] Stand and deliver: Your money or your files? In a matter of hours, the NHS was effectively placed on lockdown with computer systems being held ransom and further machines powered...
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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...systems that could efficiently solve problems, by limiting the search, such as the Logic Theorist, (considered as the first AI program), Geometry Theorem Prover, and SAINT. Secondly, making systems that could learn by themselves, for example, the GPS, developed by Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, which was capable of solving a greater extent of common-sense problems....
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The law and social work in Scotland
Health, Sports & Psychology

The law and social work in Scotland

...system. The tracks analyse the role of the family in Scottish life in relation to the many voluntary bodies that exist to assist and inform them, and the legal obligations of social workers. Participants from single mothers to solicitors presented their perspectives in a series of frank, informative interviews. This material forms part of The Open University course K207...
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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...system in England has become, a new report by MPs has outlined it in no uncertain terms. The report by the House of Commons education select committee into Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in England. The report questions the role and...
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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...system, messages are conveyed as signals on wires. The message is conveyed electronically. Manipulation of data takes place when you speak into the phone – your words are transformed into electronic signals. The data is then conveyed through the phone system, stored briefly for further processing on the way, and transformed back into words at the other end. In a mobile...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Business operations
Science, Maths & Technology

Business operations

...systems Fuller's brewery: Management The day to day management of the brewery and the challenges it presents Introducing the case studies The importance of operations management to business and how the principals remain the same regardless of the business involved Summing up the case studies The importance of good operations managers in all industries and services Vue:...
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Patterns of Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Patterns of Life

...systems, leading him to declare long term weather forecasting is utterly impossible. Alan Turing and Morphogenesis What makes tigers striped and cheetahs spotty? World War II code-breaker and father of computing, Alan Turing, has a simple explanation… Warren Weaver and Complexity Theory In 1948, Warren Weaver identified what he called complex systems. These are systems...
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My career goal: digital
Science, Maths & Technology

My career goal: digital

...systems critically and effectively. The range of free courses below give you some grounding knowledge in these areas. Development and coding Computing code is the building blocks of software systems and websites. There is an increasing demand for workers skilled in this area to design and develop software systems. The free courses below look at some of these finer skills....
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