Rajeev Motwani, an IIT Kanpur graduate and Stanford professor, played a crucial role in mentoring Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. A leading computer scientist, he helped shape early ideas ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

In several Tennessee high school classrooms, computer science students are stepping away from their screens. Instead, as part of a learning tool ...

Choosing the right method for multimodal AI—systems that combine text, images, and more—has long been trial and error. Emory ...

Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

Divine Jacob feels AI creates extra barriers for job hunters but analysts say the use of AI is an "evolving picture".

Researchers have developed the first decentralized algorithm with a collision-free, deadlock-free guarantee and validated it on a swarm of 100 autonomous robots in the lab. For self-driving vehicles ...

Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… The underlying research claims to improve on the classic approach ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

Young people are struggling to find love. It’s time to bring back the matchmaker.

Michel van der Aa’s “Theory of Flames” originates from a question: “How can we relate to people if we don’t believe in the ...

The science writer delves into the vast subject of consciousness in his new book A World Appears – and draws some surprising conclusions, finds Grace Wade ...