An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

We offer a flexible option that provides both the foundations of computer science with space for a second major or minor, like mathematics, business management, data analytics or physics. In the field ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

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While I couldn’t travel without a laptop, a desktop computer is my main machine when I’m at home, and it’s my preferred way to work—by a long shot. While I’ve been a PC enthusiast since I was seven ...

Portrait of Gerd Faltings. Image credits: Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is ...

Whether you're a tech junkie or a casual user who's seen every era of computing, you likely have plenty of old tech ephemera in your home. Maybe it's a desk drawer or closet (or even a tote) filled ...