From John Nash's encrypted letters to the NSA to a $1 million unsolved prize, this video unpacks why the gap between ...

Collaborative, creative, and fast-paced, WildHacks is Northwestern’s largest hackathon. The annual coding-based competition is designed for all students to learn and broaden their programming skills.

During the corona epidemic many of us became amateur mathematicians. How quickly would the number of hospitalized patients rise, and when would herd immunity be achieved? Professional mathematicians ...

Amateurs Solve a Famous Computer Science Problem On Discord A team of amateurs recently came together in an online collaboration called the Busy Beaver Challenge to pin down the value of BB (5), the ...

The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks. DeepMind has used its board-game ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...