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When Will This End? March 11, 2025
Researchers have invested immeasurable time and effort into programs that run and never halt.
Chris Edwards
Finding Beauty and Meaning in Computational Complexity March 7, 2025
Irit Dinur’s appointment as the first woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Mathematics is at once historic and unremarkable.
Allyn Jackson
Barto, Sutton Announced as ACM 2024 A.M. Turing Award Recipients March 5, 2025
ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed important algorithms for reinforcement […]
Sound Ideas March 4, 2025
Researchers are tuning in on ways to turn down the volume with fabrics and materials that buffer, baffle, and block sound waves.
Samuel Greengard
Explaining AI Explainability March 3, 2025
Model transparency aims to reduce bias and ensure trust.
R. Colin Johnson
Willow and the Countdown to Quantum Breaches March 3, 2025
The ever-increasing speed of quantum computers bodes both well and poorly for cybersecurity.
David Geer
The Big Shrink in LLMs February 28, 2025
Smaller models and datasets have emerged as an alternative without some of their larger cousins' drawbacks.
Karen Emslie
Computer Science Under Trump February 27, 2025
Buckle up, because what’s coming next is unlikely to look like what came before.
Logan Kugler
Self-Correction in Large Language Models February 26, 2025
LLMs may be able to correct mistakes but they must first detect errors, which is a bottleneck at present.
Sandrine Ceurstemont
Guide Dogs are Expensive and Scarce. Could Robots Do Their Job? February 25, 2025
Governmental research agencies in the U.S., the U.K., and in China are all funding research into assistive robots to help the sight-impaired.
Paul Marks

When Will This End? March 11, 2025
Researchers have invested immeasurable time and effort into programs that run and never halt.
Chris Edwards
Finding Beauty and Meaning in Computational Complexity March 7, 2025
Irit Dinur’s appointment as the first woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Mathematics is at once historic and unremarkable.
Allyn Jackson
Barto, Sutton Announced as ACM 2024 A.M. Turing Award Recipients March 5, 2025
ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed important algorithms for reinforcement […]
Sound Ideas March 4, 2025
Researchers are tuning in on ways to turn down the volume with fabrics and materials that buffer, baffle, and block sound waves.
Samuel Greengard
Explaining AI Explainability March 3, 2025
Model transparency aims to reduce bias and ensure trust.
R. Colin Johnson
Willow and the Countdown to Quantum Breaches March 3, 2025
The ever-increasing speed of quantum computers bodes both well and poorly for cybersecurity.
David Geer
The Big Shrink in LLMs February 28, 2025
Smaller models and datasets have emerged as an alternative without some of their larger cousins' drawbacks.
Karen Emslie
Computer Science Under Trump February 27, 2025
Buckle up, because what’s coming next is unlikely to look like what came before.
Logan Kugler
Self-Correction in Large Language Models February 26, 2025
LLMs may be able to correct mistakes but they must first detect errors, which is a bottleneck at present.
Sandrine Ceurstemont
Guide Dogs are Expensive and Scarce. Could Robots Do Their Job? February 25, 2025
Governmental research agencies in the U.S., the U.K., and in China are all funding research into assistive robots to help the sight-impaired.
Paul Marks