Blog

What’s the deal with Web Designers?

I was inspired to make this into a blog when a friend’s dad told me about something. He made his own company and needed a website, and he couldn’t help but note how expensive a nice-looking…

Adam Reed
29th April 2019

Ion Propulsion – How MIT Built a Plane with No Moving Parts

On the 21st of November 2018, 115 years after the Wright Flyer flew for 35 meters in 11 seconds - MIT revealed a plane with no-moving-parts that is propelled by ion thrusters which flew for 55 meters…

Yichen Xu
3rd April 2019

Corporate Money Maker or Information Utopia

I am sure that all of you who are reading this have been on the internet, or are currently on the internet, so the big question is whether the internet has become a billionaire’s playground, or is a…

Ben Nason
25th March 2019

HTTP Status Codes: The Infamous 418

I am certain that at some point everyone reading this has come into contact with an HTTP status code. This would generally be the standard 404 – the 'page could not be found' error, or the less common…

Gregor Maclaine
14th March 2019

Book review of Life 3.0

I will be reviewing Life 3.0 Being Human in the age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. This a highly factual and researched book all about A.I, the basics of what it is, what it can do and…

Zara Cherry
12th March 2019

How to shorten your Python code

Python. It’s probably one of the most useful and versatile programming languages available to date. It can be used for many different things such as: data science (things like machine learning and…

Jakob Samonig
3rd March 2019

Will Twitch take the crown over YouTube?

In 2018 there was a massive increase in media attention over the online media services that are available to the general public all over the world. YouTube and Twitch were the main two which had a…

Charlie Edwards
18th February 2019

New Website Lauch

So here we have it. After much time and effort, we here at WellyCompSci are proud to announce the launch of our brand new website, which includes new features such as blog posts, informational pages…

Will Mann
7th February 2019

A Practical Defence against Computer Hacking

I’m almost 100% certain that anyone reading this owns an internet-enabled device. This can be a phone in your pocket, a smartwatch on your wrist, a tablet in your backpack or a laptop sitting on your…

Will Mann
4th February 2019

Wellington Computer Science: Now out of this world

I am lucky enough to be a part of the most ambitious project ever being undertaken by the Wellington Computer Science department. WellyHAB (High Altitude Balloon) is planning to launch a balloon into…

Ben Hoggarth (with contributions from Arjun Naha)
4th February 2019