Computer Science

You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them.

Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it now lies under nearly every part of modern life. In this week’s episode, computer scientist Boaz Barak and co-host Janna Levin discuss the past and future of secrecy.

By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts.

Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz.

Neural networks and other forms of machine learning ultimately learn by trial and error, one improvement at a time.

After decades of uncertainty, a motley team of programmers has proved precisely how complicated simple computer programs can get.

Computational complexity theorists have discovered a surprising new way to understand what makes certain problems hard.

Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.

Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.