An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

In a new article, mathematicians describe how modern computer technology has vastly expanded our ability to discover new mathematical results. By computing mathematical expressions to very high ...

Many disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering and economics seek accurate and reliable approximations to mathematical problems where exact solutions are not known to exist. Giants such as Ford ...

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Learn by Doing: Gain experience through an experiential learning component of the program approved by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Real World Experience: With RIT’s cooperative education ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology Ph.D. student was part of a team of researchers that settled a 90-year-old math problem called Keller’s conjecture. David Narváez, a computing and information ...

IBM’s supercomputer Watson performed quite a stunt on Jeopardy last week. A match between the two all-time human champs and some 200,000 watts of computing power took the man-machine challenge to a ...

67-year-programming language ranks in the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity for two months running. Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language ...