Where you store data is as important to the computer as the data itself yet the importance of the address if often overlooked ... 

Extensible hashing and perfect hashing are ideas that are worth exploring.

The search for intelligent machines started long before the computer was invented and AI has many different strands.

The sort of instructions that most computers recognise are too simple for humans to be bothered with - and so we invented assembly language.

What could be simpler than binary arithmetic? It’s just two-fingered counting and once you know how it works then it seems natural for a computer to use it. But this isn’t always how it was.

Binary arithmetic is easy but what about negative numbers - it can be tricky!

It may sound like a daunting topic but Boolean logic is very easy to explain and to understand.

Buses are everywhere and yes when you are looking for one they tend to come in threes! With that joke out of the way, let’s take a look at what a bus is in general and in particular.

We discover what cache memory is, what it does, how it does it and how much do you need

You might well think that “chaos” isn’t something that really should be mentioned in the same breath as “computer” but you’d be wrong. Here's an overview of a  fascinating and disturbing topic.