Much interest in quantum computer development was spurred by Peter Shor's 1994 discovery of an algorithm that showed how ...

Pioneering computer scientist who devised the Quicksort algorithm, ways of verifying programs and guards against hackers ...

A medical, humanitarian, transhumanist and politically neutral project: This is how Neuralink has described itself since it ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern ...

The computer science (CS) major in the McKelvey School of Engineering, once the biggest major at WashU, is seeing a dramatic decline in enrollment in the 2025-2026 academic year. According to CS ...