Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

Abstract: The extensive adoption of cloud computing platforms in storing and processing data have brought forth a new age of efficiency in the way data is stored, processed and managed, requiring new ...

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A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...

For lithologic oil reservoirs, lithology identification plays a significant guiding role in exploration targeting, reservoir evaluation, well network adjustment and optimization, and the establishment ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

1 The College of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China 2 Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, College of Xining Urban Vocational and Technical, Xining, China Traditional ...