The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

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Developers of the computer game Doom released the game's code in 1997, allowing scientists to use it as part of their research. Credit: id Software via ArcadeImages/Alamy. When th ...

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...

The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quantum error correction has ...

Two popular quantum computing algorithms for problems in chemistry may have very limited use even as quantum hardware ...

Computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life. In recent years, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly. A new National Academies ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Vector Algorithmics, a provider of algorithmic trading solutions, today announced a significant update to its futures trading algorithm. The enhanced system demonstrates substantial improvements in ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

In this interview, Curt Burmeister, chief technology officer and co-head of SS&C Algorithmics, discusses the challenges for clients in today’s complex environment, where high-powered computing and ...