The 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Wigderson, a mathematician who discovered the strange connection between computation and randomness. Wigderson was announced the winner of the Association ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

For artificial intelligence to realize its potential — to relieve humans from mundane tasks, make life easier, and eventually invent entirely new solutions to our problems — computers will need to ...

A pioneering New Jersey professor has won the A.M. Turing Award — which has been described as the Nobel Prize for computer science — for his groundbreaking work helping computer algorithms reflect the ...

Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Marisa Shuman challenged her students at the Young Women’s ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: The term algorithm is so often wrapped up in conversations about the ...

There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...