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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography
A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work...
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Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back
The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.
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A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle
Can you devise a series of steps to avoid hazards two paces to either side of you, even if you are forced to take every second, third or Nth step in your series...
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A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation
At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer's conference on the theory of computing appeared to be something of a letdown.
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A Grand Vision For the Impossible
Subhash Khot's bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limitations of computation.
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