Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

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Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

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Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side. There should ...

When Manasi Mishra began studying computer science, she envisioned a future writing code for major tech companies, not rolling burritos. But the recent Purdue University graduate has been unable to ...

Have computer programmers innovated themselves out of a job? That’s the fear driving theories that AI will remove the need for humans who can write computer code. Today's most sophisticated large ...

IBM Corp. beat expectations on second-quarter earnings and revenue today, aided by strong sales of new mainframe hardware that’s capable of processing vast amounts of data for artificial intelligence ...

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