We had a great day meeting with everyone at the ECS Careers Fair at Southampton, and we were pleased that our annual puzzle generated as much interest as it did. We did think it would engage with people visiting the fair – we didn’t expect people to be staring at it for 10 minutes trying to find all solutions!

We have now posted the winners of the prize draw.

The puzzle:

E E R T N O I S I C E D O G A W K S S W A
Y P W E K A Q D I N O S A U R C E R L X L
R E I N F O R C E M E N T L E A R N I N G
E L A S T I C S E A R C H B A F A O M A O
S P O O D A H O C O W K D O G F S H E I R
A T B R U Z I S S T O R M O P E T T Y S I
B R E F C U V E M U J A N T I F L Y D E T
L E X L K R E M C R Y P T O G R A P H Y M
M X B O K E H W V N O S Q L S N A K E A S
D R A W D E S R O H N I A H C K C O L B L

*terms are either forwards or backwards, horizontal or vertical (no diagonals)

Within the word search are more than 25 terms / technologies / tools that are associated with machine learning – however, we have been devious and added several red herrings. Spotted within included DINOSAUR and SQLSNAKE – we’ve not yet heard these are around, but hopefully they are coming!