To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

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While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to ...

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. Three new species of ...

Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers.

With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine ...

While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. Neural Networks Need Data to Learn. Even If It’s Fake. Real data ...