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In Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth
The overriding philosophy of computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth, who died on January 1, 2024, was that systems should be simple, efficient, and "elegant."
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Algorithmic Advance: The Group Isomorphism Problem
Exploring a potential way to immensely speed up algorithms for the group isomorphism problem.
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Teaching Transformed
The apparent ability of LLMs to write functioning source code has caused celebration over the potential for massive increases in programmer productivity and consternation...
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Caltech, Broadcom Partner on Quantum R&D
A multi-year partnership between the California Institute of Technology and Broadcom aims to advance quantum science research and development.
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Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.
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Keeping Secrets in a Quantum World
Cryptographers are working on data-encryption schemes strong enough to withstand attacks from future quantum computers.
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Atom Computing First to Announce a 1,000+ Qubit Quantum Computer
A startup company has upped its qubit count by an order of magnitude in two years.
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Researchers Receive CODES+ISSS Best Paper Award
The researchers received the best paper award for their proposed chiplet-enabled computer architecture.
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Quantum Repeaters Use Defects in Diamond to Interconnect Quantum Systems
Scientists are now leveraging defects in diamonds to construct quantum repeaters.
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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...
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Study Explains Role of Certain Types of Oxide in Structure, Development of Specialty Glass
Researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and computational modeling to demonstrate silica network polymerization.
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What Do Neurons, Fireflies, and Dancing the Nutbush Have in Common?
Computer scientists and mathematicians have designed a framework for evaluating synchronized phenomena.
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Toughest Known Structure Discovered by Autonomous Robot Lab
The Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher robotics laboratory at Canada's University of Toronto has discovered the most energy-absorbent mechanical structure...
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Teen's Pill-Tracking Device Attracts Interest from CVS Pharmacy
U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is among those interested in a pill-tracking device created by Virginia-based high school student Archishma Marrapu.
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Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough
By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.
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Complexity Theory's 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results...
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Superconducting Device Could Dramatically Cut Energy Use in Computing, Other Applications
A simple superconducting device developed by MIT researchers could help achieve significant reductions in energy usage by high-power computing systems and potentially...
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Faster Spin Waves May Enable Magnonic Computing Systems
A team of scientists says it has solved the challenge of exciting spin waves with normalized amplitudes by exploiting a deeply non-linear phenomenon for forward...
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