Scientists are trying to tame the chaos of modern artificial intelligence by doing something very old fashioned: drawing a table. Instead of chemical elements, the new chart arranges learning ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Since the very first days of computer science — a field known for its methodical approach to problem-solving — randomness has played an important role. The first program to run on the world’s first ...