When Rediet Abebe arrived at Harvard University as an undergraduate in 2009, she planned to study mathematics. But her experiences with the Cambridge public schools soon changed her plans. Abebe, 29, ...

Have you ever thought about how we can incorporate computer algorithms into our day-to-day problem-solving? Could it bring good results? Algorithms to Live By offers us a peculiar but effective way of ...

As a teenager in the Czech Republic, Lenka Zdeborová glimpsed her future in an Isaac Asimov novel. A character in Asimov’s “Foundation” series invents a mathematical method for predicting the path of ...

As a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant concludes, Chris Hoadley, director of the UB Institute for Learning Sciences and professor in the Graduate School of Education, reflects on the ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...