Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...

A chance meeting during a dip in the ocean was the first step on the road to quantum information science.

Wigderson is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has been a leading figure in areas including computational ...

Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...

Emerson was a pioneer of a computer science technique called Model Checking that has become a standard approach in hardware and software development. E. Allen Emerson E. Allen Emerson, winner of the ...

In the 1970s, Jack Dongarra created code and concepts that allowed software to work easily with the world’s most powerful computing machines. By Cade Metz In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at ...

Nominations for the first Shaw Prize in Computer Science will open from September to November this year. We encourage nominators to put forward candidates whose achievements exemplify the innovation ...