Then I got into computer science… by chance, through correction codes and information theory. What is your definition of computer science?

Similar analogies exist in the area of autonomous vehicles. Overall, machine learning seems to define the notion of probabilistic algorithms in computer science in a similar manner as quantum physics.

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs for ...

Researchers have devised a new framework for designing machine learning algorithms that helps prevent intelligent machines from being biased.

In fact, this problem contains enough structure that computer scientists have developed a fast procedure (or algorithm) for it that bypasses the need for an exhaustive search.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

But he is worried that a culture in computer science to focus more on the end, rather than means, means intellectual property rights are often disregarded.