It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result. By Dennis Overbye Once upon a time, Albert Einstein described scientific ...

Researchers at Imperial College London think they have found a way to test one of the most important – and controversial ideas in theoretical physics: string theory. The team, headed by Professor ...

What if the universe, in all its physical complexity, could be explained by just a few simple computational rules? Stephen Wolfram wants to find out not only if that is true, but what it would mean if ...

The word quantum often portends New Age mumbo-jumbo, in spite of the fact that quantum mechanics underlies many of today’s most important technologies, including lasers and the semiconductors found in ...

Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...

The most powerful computer on the planet isn’t sitting in some research center being cooled by liquid nitrogen. It’s sitting in your pocket or on your desktop—or at least a piece of it is. We’ve all ...

The practice of using cloud computing to solve real development, deployment, and operations problems is generating more buzz than the vision and theory. James Urquhart is a field technologist with ...

At the dawn of computing, women were the early adopters of computational technology, working with punch cards in what was then considered secretarial work. As computer science evolved into a ...

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung. Supplement, No. 29, From History to Applied Computer Science in the Humanities (2017), pp. 193-202 (10 pages) The early phases of computer ...