Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

Computation is playing an increasing role in all STEM fields, and the ability for students to use and understand various computational tools is vital to long term success. It is not a question of if ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

Rapid technological change almost always invites rapid financial innovation. As new forms of production emerge, markets rush to name them, package them, and – inevitably – securitize them. Familiar ...

Explore how multi-party computation (MPC) protocols enable secure threshold signatures, driving trust and security in blockchain and crypto systems.

The Church-Turing limit restricts all current computation, including quantum computers, to rational number computation. This is because quantum computer designs (still not scalable even with high ...

The wisdom of the crowd has become so powerful and so accessible via the Internet that it has become a resource in its own right. Various services now tap into this rich supply of human cognition, ...