From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

By David Kirton SHENZHEN, April 30 (Reuters) - An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

Artificial intelligence has given this 83-year-old research scientist a new lease on life. I had been wanting to complete a ...

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler on Friday formally petitioned the US Supreme Court to decide whether creative works produced entirely by artificial intelligence can qualify for copyright protection.

Eager to pursue a doctorate after she graduates from Northwestern next year with a double major in computer science and mathematics, Penelope Orwant wanted to gain research experience. So, Orwant ...

A Vietnamese-born computer scientist at Washington State University has won the U.S. National Science Foundation's CAREER Award for his work on artificial intelligence systems that can flag their own ...

The nature of scientific progress is that it sometimes provides powerful tools that can be wielded for good or for ill: splitting the atom and nuclear weapons being a case in point. In such cases, ...