Amateurs Solve a Famous Computer Science Problem On Discord A team of amateurs recently came together in an online collaboration called the Busy Beaver Challenge to pin down the value of BB (5), the ...

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...

Pace is focused on teaching students how to solve problems. (Photo by: GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Across the country, a familiar challenge is emerging: the workforce isn’t ...

New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science. But the way to do it, according to Cameron Seth, a Ph.D. researcher ...

For decades, the solution to harder problems has been ‘build a bigger computer’— but what if this is the wrong strategy altogether? This is because some problems defeat computers, not because they are ...