Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

The following is a story that originally appeared on the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences website.

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

We offer a flexible option that provides both the foundations of computer science with space for a second major or minor, like mathematics, business management, data analytics or physics. In the field ...

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...