Computer science

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it.

The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes.

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length.

As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now we know that the simplest versions can’t get any shorter.

Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation while championing women in mathematics and computer science. Now consciousness is on her mind.

Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems.

Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.