Our researchers imagine what the world might look like in 2076, when the university celebrates its bicentennial ...

Three Northwestern schools represented the University at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation this month.

Mathematician and Michigander Claude Shannon revolutionized how the digital world communicates in the late 1940s. He is now ...

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

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

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...

Advances in recent years suggest we are entering the Quantum Frontier Era. National security, science, economic ...

University of California San Diego computer science and mathematics professor Daniel M. Kane has been awarded the 2026 Gödel Prize, one of the highest honors in theoretical computer science. Kane is a ...

Information theory, developed by Claude Shannon, revealed that information is a measurable physical quantity and laid the mathematical foundation for every digital technology we use today. Why the ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way around. Should this theory hold up, it would rewrite our understanding of ...

Abstract: Encoding and decoding of Reed-Muller codes have been a major research topic in coding and theoretical computer science communities. Despite of the fact that there have been numerous encoding ...