Computer scientist Gilles Brassard (left) and physicist Charles Bennett received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography. - Getty Images/AP Years ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

In a remarkable fusion of biology and technology, a DNA-based computer that performs effectively has been created by scientists. This innovative breakthrough promises to redefine the boundaries of ...

Computer scientists at UBC and collaborators show that an AI system can conduct the entire research cycle independently, ...

In the past decade, the computational power of AI has grown exponentially—doubling every six months since 2010 for some well-known tools. This, in tandem with more sophisticated machine learning ...

Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is one of the biggest unanswered questions of this growing industry – and one that might be answered by researchers in industrial and ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...