Algorithms are one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. An algorithm is a plan, a set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem. If you can tie shoelaces, make a cup of tea, get dressed ...

We all live with computers…but getting the most out of them… getting them to do what you need…can be kind of difficult. But if you can understand how they process things, a computer can be the most ...

The world of quantum computing is a noisy place, where error correction is needed to ensure quantum devices run correctly ...

Computer scientists at Caltech have designed DNA molecules that can carry out reprogrammable computations, for the first time creating so-called algorithmic self-assembly in which the same "hardware" ...

On 4 August 2005, the police department of Memphis, Tennessee, made so many arrests over a three-hour period that it ran out of vehicles to transport the detainees to jail. Three days later, 1,200 ...

Lots of algorithms go bad unintentionally. Some of them, however, are made to be criminal. Algorithms are formal rules, usually written in computer code, that make predictions on future events based ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.