Before modern computers existed, Alan Turing reduced all of mental work to three primitive operations on an infinite tape.

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

Modern computing is often effortless. You pick up a calculator or open the calculator app on your phone, and you’re on your way in seconds. But getting here took humans several centuries from when ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Alan Turing's radical insight was that any mechanical thought process could be stripped down to a few symbolic operations on a strip of tape. This video unpacks how that elegant simplification became ...

High pressure keeps the Pacific Northwest hot and mostly sunny, with Willamette Valley highs in the upper 80s. Monsoonal moisture brings dry thunderstorms east of the Cascades, plus Red Flag and Fire ...

Getting a good night’s sleep is something that I’ve struggled with my entire life, and so if there's anything I can do to help me when I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m willing to try it. I ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Filmmaker Mark Alan Hoffman is making his rounds across the Pacific Northwest with his award-winning debut feature film “A Simple Machine.” The movie will make its Oregon ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as ...