Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

What if the thermal noise that hinders the efficiency of both classical and quantum computers could, instead, be used as a ...

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

Governmental Procurement of AI is vulnerable to Arrow's information paradox. The standoff between Pentagon and Anthropic ...

Experts are calling for the cryptographic systems on which the entire network depends to be made ready now for the imminent ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Quantum computers use qubits, which are based on quantum physics, allowing them to solve complex problems far faster than ...

Alberto Corigliano introduces the ERC Advanced Grant project IMMENSE, which aims to overcome the challenge of developing ...

They’ve just been doing it that way since 1766, when the first graduate asked, “What’s sociology 101?” To which the answer at the time was, “What’s sociology?” Then: “Holy smokes, you can count to 101 ...

New research was motivated by "high-potential societal impacts" of successfully disabling autonomous drones, a study author ...

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