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The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories

By Susan D'Agostino
April 16, 2020
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For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression.

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Graced With Knowledge, Mathematicians Seek to Understand

By Kevin Hartnett
April 8, 2020
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A landmark proof in computer science has also solved an important problem called the Connes embedding conjecture. Mathematicians are working to understand it.

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Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way

By Susan D'Agostino
March 12, 2020
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Ronald Rivest helped come up with the RSA algorithm, which safeguards online commerce. Now he’s hoping to make democratic elections more trustworthy.

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Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math

By Kevin Hartnett
March 4, 2020
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Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.

By Natalie Wolchover
January 30, 2020
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By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command.

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How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm

By Grant Sanderson
January 21, 2020
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A curious physicist has discovered an unexpected link between theoretical block collisions and a famed quantum search algorithm.

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Why I’m Hosting The Joy of x Podcast

By Steven Strogatz
January 15, 2020
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The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains why he wanted to share intimate conversations with leading researchers from diverse fields in his new podcast.

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An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions

By John Pavlus
January 9, 2020
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The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.

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2019 in Review

The Year in Math and Computer Science

By Bill Andrews
December 23, 2019
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Mathematicians and computer scientists made big progress in number theory, graph theory, machine learning and quantum computing, even as they reexamined our fundamental understanding of mathematics and neural networks.


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