Quantum computing offers the hope of dramatic increases in computational capabilities. That’s the promise of quantum computers that can handle hundreds of thousands or millions of quantum bits or ...

Metrosert, Estonia’s Applied Research Centre and National Metrology Institute, invites Estonian companies as well as students ...

The Internet of Things has quietly woven itself into nearly every corner of modern life, from smart thermostats and wearable ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Image segmentation is one of those deceptively simple tasks that quietly underpins much of modern computer vision. Before a self-driving car can recognize a pedestrian, before a radiologist’s AI a ...

AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgments in some settings. For instance, resume-screening algorithms are often ...

Are we shaping our feeds or are they shaping us — and is this healthy? Faculty weigh in recommendation algorithms.

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...