Computer science

The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.

The computer scientist Cynthia Dwork takes abstract concepts like privacy and fairness and adapts them into machine code for the algorithmic age.

Quanta Magazine invites readers to share about their early math and science learning experiences and to explore the interactive survey results.

The impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational theory. What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines?

When divvying something up, there's more than one way to define what's fair.

Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.

Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.

A project to decipher the brain’s learning rules could revolutionize machine learning.

The Go-playing program teaches itself to replicate something very much like human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.