Dr. Nirmalya Thakur, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

The research highlights the philosophical urgency of AI development. As global efforts to achieve general intelligence accelerate, the study calls for renewed dialogue between computer science, ...

In the words of Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, space and time cannot contain the fundamental laws of physics because they generate ...

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

From Oct. 15 to Oct. 17, researchers, democracy advocates, and students gathered at Wellesley College for the “Social Choice: Theory and Computation Conference” hosted by Institute for Mathematics and ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

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