A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on ...

Explore the urgent need to transform India's engineering education to meet evolving demands in the AI-driven job market.

Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which he published in 1959, predates packet switching by a few ...

Industrial sustainability advances with better recycled metals, AI-sorted plastics, clean energy labs, energy-harvesting ...

Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...