Children naturally discover computer sorting algorithms through play, without any instruction, study finds surprisingly.

It was previously thought that children younger than 7 couldn't find efficient solutions to complex problems, but new ...

As our world continues to grow, we face an increasingly complex and pressing challenge—the need to process vast amounts of data quickly and accurately has made Artificial Intelligence (AI) an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Ask any British coder of a certain age what it was that got them into the technology business in the first place, and the chances are high that they’ll say it was a childhood encounter with a Sinclair ...

The 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Wigderson . The mathematician found that adding randomness into algorithms made them better at solving nondeterministic problems. When you purchase through ...

Many experts believe that once quantum computers are big enough and reliable enough to solve useful problems, the most common deployment architecture will be to have them serve as accelerators for ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...