Computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life. In recent years, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly. A new National Academies ...

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More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a niche field limited to computer science labs. From search engines and recommendation ...

Those that solve artificially simplified problems where quantum advantage is meaningless. Those that provide no genuine quantum advantage when all costs are properly accounted for. This critique is ...

Computing is hardly the only discipline in which AI has prompted a moment of reflection. Yet coding agents and app generators raise profound questions about the purpose of the field—and indeed, its ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...