Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

Program change, collaboration, and interdisciplinary majors offer potential. Student enrollment is down, artificial ...

UT Computer Science ranks 10th nationally with four “specialties,” or areas of research; also ranked in the top ten at UTCS: Artificial Intelligence moving up to 7th, Programming Languages ranked 7th, ...

Graduate programs at UC San Diego continue to stand out among the nation’s best in U.S. News and World Report’s 2026 ranking of Best Graduate Schools. Skaggs ...

What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference? That is the core of simulation theory, one of the most unsettling ideas to ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. Those water-logged scientists, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...