Complexity theory is a branch of computer science that studies the resources required to solve computational problems, particularly focusing on the classification of problems based on their inherent ...

Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...

Williams is Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation, and Faculty Associate at Harvard ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Everyone’s always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn’t use a five or six month break ...

The evolution of what posts get top billing on users’ news feeds, and what gets obscured Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism ...

As summer comes to a close, local governments are returning to their council chambers and facing massive pressures. Municipal budgets are losing hundreds of millions in revenue in the wake of ...

Consensus algorithms are processes where validators (also known as nodes or miners) within a blockchain network agree on the current state of the network. This mainly entails agreeing on whether a ...

Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, professors at the University of Pennsylvania, suggest that the solution is to "embed precise definitions of fairness, accuracy, transparency, and ethics at the algorithm ...

In the face of claims that they prioritize profits over people, Facebook and Instagram are under mounting pressure to reform the ways in which their platforms are built to be addictive for users.