When you swing a tennis racket or catch a set of keys, you aren’t thinking about wind resistance or gravity. Yet, to perform that motion, your brain is solving a massive physics problem in ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on ...

Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which he published in 1959, predates packet switching by a few ...

Abstract: In the realm of computer science, sorting algorithms play a pivotal role in optimising data organisation and retrieval processes across various applications. This paper presents a ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick ...

The situation with the fiscal year 2026 budget for the United States is, to put it politely, kind of a mess. The White House proposed a budget earlier this year with significant cuts for a number of ...