Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...
Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in ...
A team of EPFL researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account ...
McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...
Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.
Richard Stursberg has some ideas. In his new book, “Lament for a Literature,” the former CBC executive and long-time CanCon ...
Source: Darren Edwards What if one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics is not just about numbers or computers, but about observers like you and me? This isn’t a proposed solution to P vs ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...