John Pavlus

And not destroy humanity in the process.

Computer scientists are finding ways to code curiosity into intelligent machines.

Greatness was always expected of Ken Ono. But as he struggled with his parents’ expectations, he found solace and inspiration in the life of two-time college dropout — and mathematical genius — Srinivasa Ramanujan, the subject of the film The Man Who Knew Infinity.

The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.

A major advance in computational complexity reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.