Mordechai Rorvig

Former Staff Writer

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Computer Science Proof Unveils Unexpected Form of Entanglement

July 18, 2022

Three computer scientists have posted a proof of the NLTS conjecture, showing that systems of entangled particles can remain difficult to analyze even away from extremes.

Quantum Algorithms Conquer a New Kind of Problem

July 11, 2022

Computer scientists have found a new type of problem that quantum computers can solve dramatically faster than their classical counterparts.

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The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs

June 13, 2022

Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions.

Computer Scientists Prove That Certain Problems Are Truly Hard

May 11, 2022

Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems.

Researchers Gain New Understanding From Simple AI

April 14, 2022

Language processing programs are notoriously hard to interpret, but smaller versions can provide important insights into how they work.

Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices

February 25, 2022

For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.

Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better

February 10, 2022

Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.

Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show

January 6, 2022

A new result shows that quantum information can theoretically be protected from errors just as well as classical information can.

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