Richard A. Scott, SCU class of 1988, received his PhD in mathematics from MIT and returned to join the faculty of Santa Clara in 1997. In 2014, Rick received a prestigious Simons Faculty Collaboration ...

Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

Global tech leaders are pushing students to focus on maths and computer science when they are tempted to move away. There is a quiet panic creeping through classrooms and coding labs. Artificial ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a leading global climate model is offering a stark forecast for the decades ahead.

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

OpenAI’s unreleased model solved five of 10 unpublished research-level math problems and proposed a breakthrough physics formula, signaling a new era for AI in science.

Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers. OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The ...

For the last few years, the narrative around Generative AI in science has largely focused on administrative efficiency – writing grant proposals, summarizing dense papers, or debugging Python scripts.

Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics—but their incredible power also makes them surprisingly vulnerable. New research from Penn State warns that ...