At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Abstract: The Ising computer, a hardware accelerator based on the Ising model, has attracted ever-increasing interest as an alternative computer for solving nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) hard ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

This folder contains the programs found in the March 1975 3rd printing of David Ahl's 101 BASIC Computer Games, published by Digital Equipment Corp. You can download ...

We investigate how current noisy quantum computers can be leveraged for generating secure random numbers certified by Quantum Mechanics. While random numbers can be generated and certified in a device ...

Starting today, customers with U.S.-based environments can add computer use to their agents directly as a tool - meaning agents can work directly with websites and applications. Computer use, now in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition is a free, open source textbook available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Originally developed for UVM’s CS 1210 ...

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