12-13-2016 TECH The Fundamentals Of Computer Science, Explained Through Sand Once you understand what this machine is doing, you’ll understand many of modern computer science’s fundamentals.

Super Slow Computer Programs Reveal Math's Fundamental Limits The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program.

Princeton University is the lead institution for a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant that will fund research on "intractability" -- a concept that has profound implications for a broad ...

Two of the tech industry's biggest names are offering more than just sage advice to high school students wanting to learn how to write computer code. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have also ...

Computer memory has taken on many forms over the years, from mercury-based delay-line tubes to handwoven magnetic core. These days, volatile storage using semiconductors has become ubiquitous with … ...

Quantum computers that save their data in so-called quantum bits (or qubits) will be confronted with a fundamental limitation. This is the claim made by Dutch theoretical physicists from the ...

"It's fundamental," Nigel Toon, co-founder and chief executive of computer startup Graphcore, told ZDNet in a video interview last week from his home in England.