Physicists and computer scientists have recently expanded the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers ...

A leader in the field of computational theory is the latest winner of the A. M. Turing Award, sometimes described as the ‘Nobel Prize’ of computer science. Avi Wigderson at the Institute for Advanced ...

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 ...

1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Entrepreneur Charles C. Hoskinson has made a $20 million gift to Carnegie Mellon University to establish the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics, the ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

Learn how to formulate, solve and analyze real-world problems. As an Applied Mathematics and Statistics major, you will learn how to apply mathematics to solve problems in fields such as business, ...

Professors: Ruth E. Davis, Yi Fang, Silvia M. B. Figueira (Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor and Department Chair), Nam Ling (Wilmot J. Nicholson Family Professor) Bachelor of Science in Computer ...

Outgoing Northwestern Computer Science PhD students Chenkai Weng and Peng Kang and postdoctoral fellows Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Eric Evert, Yiding Feng, Suprovat Ghoshal, Saurabh ...

When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...