Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

Northwestern Computer Science honors and recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in computer science mentoring and ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Two popular quantum computing algorithms for problems in chemistry may have very limited use even as quantum hardware ...

Governmental Procurement of AI is vulnerable to Arrow's information paradox. The standoff between Pentagon and Anthropic ...

Computing is part of everything we do. Computing drives innovation in engineering, business, entertainment, education, and the sciences—and it provides solutions to complex, challenging problems of ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Thanks to the alternating single-double nature of the bonds, electrons in these orbitals end up delocalized; the differences between the bonds become a bit irrelevant, and the molecule is best viewed ...

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...