The policy could provide a much-needed hedge against a future AI dystopia—but only if it’s designed the right way.

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

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It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Abstract: In recent years, it is a difficult issue to integrate the deep cross-fertilization and interpretable cognitive modeling methods from the basic theory of emotional psychology with deep ...

“The half-life of humanity is currently around 35 years,” said Nobel laureate in physics David Gross as he concluded an evening lecture at the German Physical Society’s conference in Erlangen in March ...

New research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked startup, says quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology theorize that a ...

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to computer vision. Major topics include image processing, detection and recognition, geometry-based and physics-based vision and video analysis.

Abstract: Learning data structures is a hard task for computer science students, given the mental effort required to simultaneously understand abstract diagrams and the dynamic manipulation of nodes ...

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch in some inputs — the specific numbers ...

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.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...