Computer Scientist

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

An executive toy that's more like a battery-operated koan about humans and technology.

Jim Sanborn's inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they've cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft has landed on the surface of the moon, but it seems to have fallen over and we do not yet know if it will be able to drill for ice

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is planned to touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6

If you think the United States is politically divided now, just wait for the AI culture wars.

John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.

Structured as a series of obituaries, Eden Robins's literary puzzle box uses an AI character's story to examine the very human experiences of love, jealousy, betrayal, grief, mortality, and the search for meaning.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics. John Hopfield...

For years, people have been trying to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin. Despite the efforts of journalists, researchers, and even self-proclaimed Satoshis, the true identity behind the…

Soon-to-stream HBO film sets off much speculation in world of crypto

Computer scientist and meteorologist Amy McGovern has studied the technology for two decades, and she weighs in with some answers

Gregory Chaitin is a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, renowned for founding algorithmic information theory. Gregory published his first groun...

'So far, so good,' said Elon Musk.

The company wants to build a computer containing up to 1 million qubits on a Chicago campus.

A London judge who found that an Australian computer scientist falsely claimed to be the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency says he will refer the case to British prosecutors for possible perjury charges

A UK judge has determined that Craig Wright forged evidence in a campaign to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, in a move that prevents him from bringing further lawsuits in the country.

NASA interns had a chance to inspire students all the way across the world in Kenya through virtual lessons about science and space.

Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation.

Avi Wigderson's pioneering work on randomness advanced the idea that some problems may simply be beyond even the most powerful computers.