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Daniel Spielman sits in front of an elaborate window at Yale University
Q&A

The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs

By Mordechai Rorvig
June 13, 2022
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Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions.

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How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection

By Sheon Han
May 17, 2022
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Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

neural networks

AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware

By Allison Whitten
February 17, 2022
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Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

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To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before

By Susan D'Agostino
October 21, 2020
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Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it.

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Abstractions blog

How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice

By Stephen Ornes
July 8, 2020
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Researchers are one step closer to injecting probability into deterministic machines.

Q&A

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.

Data Driven: The New Big Science

Our Bodies, Our Data

By Emily Singer
October 7, 2013
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New technologies have launched the life sciences into the age of big data. Biologists must now make sense of their windfall.

quantum computing

The Proof in the Quantum Pudding

By Erica Klarreich
August 21, 2013
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How do you know if a quantum computer is doing what it claims? A new protocol offers a possible solution and a boost to quantum cryptography.

algorithms

In Computers We Trust?

By Natalie Wolchover
February 22, 2013
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As the role of computers in pure mathematics grows, researchers debate their reliability.

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