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cryptography

A New Design for Cryptography’s Black Box

By Kevin Hartnett
September 2, 2015
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A recent cryptographic breakthrough has proven difficult to put into practice. But new advances show how near-perfect computer security might be surprisingly close at hand.

Quantized Columns

The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation

By Michael Nielsen
July 23, 2015
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Computers can translate French and prove mathematical theorems. But can they make deep conceptual insights into the way the world works?

complex systems

The New Laws of Explosive Networks

By Jennifer Ouellette
July 14, 2015
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Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.

foundations of mathematics

Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?

By Kevin Hartnett
May 19, 2015
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The Fields medalist Vladimir Voevodsky has died at 51. This 2015 article describes his computer-aided quest to eliminate human error and rewrite the century-old rules underlying all of mathematics.

Q&A

Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer

By Natalie Wolchover
April 21, 2015
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Computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.

Q&A

Quantum Computing Without Qubits

By Peter Byrne
January 22, 2015
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A quantum computing pioneer explains why the near future of quantum computation may lie in simulators, not general-purpose quantum machines.

genetics

Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic Controls

By Emily Singer
December 18, 2014
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Scientists have begun to decipher the most difficult-to-read parts of the genome — the parts that don’t code for proteins. The new work reveals how errors in these genetic instructions can lead to disease.

Computer Science

A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos

By Natalie Wolchover
December 4, 2014
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New research suggests physicists, computers and brains employ the same procedure to tease out important features from among other irrelevant bits of data.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Grand Vision for the Impossible

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Subhash Khot’s bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.


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