Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex computational problems, with applications in everything from supply chain ...

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) provide a versatile framework for modelling complex decision-making tasks where a collection of variables must be allocated values that satisfy specific ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote, or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you ...

This chapter highlights some of the most prominent research challenges from theoretical/computational chemistry that appear to be amenable to attack with the help of ...

While improvements in computer hardware and high performance computing frameworks continue to provide computational speed increases, efficient mathematical algorithms and skillful coding are essential ...

We are clearly on the verge of a revolution in medicine—one in which the sequence of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs is as much a part of a patient’s phenotypic profile as are the sounds of the heart or were the ...

The program will foster “collaboration among faculty from different disciplines,” according to Guarini dean Jon Kull ’88.

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