A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

During their studies, students encounter names like Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, usually with the same mix of respect and mild resignation. One reads what they have proven, accepts it as impressive, ...

People have long asked whether the world they experience is fundamentally real or the product of a simulation, a question often framed today as the simulation hypothesis. A new paper examines a ...

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, codebreaker, and philosopher known for his Turing Test, an imitation game. He is best known, however, for his 1936 paper on the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the ...

The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert announced a list of 23 key ...

Programming is both an enjoyable and a difficult task. A seemingly small slip can introduce a serious error or create a security vulnerability. The need for, and ...