A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a potentially more effective way of helping computers solve some of the toughest optimization problems they face. Their ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

Discover how Google's quantum echoes algorithm is solving real-world problems in drug discovery, material science, and ...

Daniel Lokshtanov’s work explores the limits of what computers can solve, paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence and computational efficiency.

Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran an algorithm for a quantum computer that ...

Computer scientists are abuzz over a fast new algorithm for solving one of the central problems in the field. (January 15, 2017, update: On January 4, Babai retracted his claim that the new algorithm ...

What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...