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How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair

By Kevin Hartnett
November 23, 2016
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The computer scientist Cynthia Dwork takes abstract concepts like privacy and fairness and adapts them into machine code for the algorithmic age.

Abstractions blog

All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math

By Erica Klarreich
October 7, 2016
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When divvying something up, there’s more than one way to define what’s fair.

algorithms

How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too

By Erica Klarreich
October 6, 2016
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Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.

computer security

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

By Kevin Hartnett
September 20, 2016
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Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.

Q&A

Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

By John Pavlus
January 28, 2016
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The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.

Computer Science

Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse

By Erica Klarreich
December 14, 2015
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Computer scientists are abuzz over a fast new algorithm for solving one of the central problems in the field.

Quantized Columns

The Physical Origin of Universal Computing

By Michael Nielsen
October 27, 2015
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The physical nature of computers might reveal deep truths about their uniquely powerful abstract abilities.

Mathematics

Theorists Draw Closer to Perfect Coloring

By Natalie Wolchover
October 20, 2015
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A theorem for coloring a large class of “perfect” mathematical networks could ease the way for a long-sought general coloring proof.

Computer Science

A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation

By John Pavlus
September 29, 2015
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A major advance in computational complexity reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.


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