Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex ...

Avi Wigderson's pioneering work on randomness advanced the idea that some problems may simply be beyond even the most powerful computers.

Is the brain like a computer? In some ways it is, and studying how the brain performs computations could help us identify new causes of mental illness.

Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems, establishing a new foundation for what is needed to keep information secure.

Quantum cloud computing is a nascent technology with profound implications, and it may soon be widely available thanks to cloud technology.

Computational Psychiatry Over the past several years, a new field of research has emerged called computational psychiatry, which takes this perspective seriously.