Computing

Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines

The same physics that makes quantum computers powerful also makes them finicky. New techniques aim to correct errors faster than they can build up

Klára Dán von Neumann encounters a new home, a new husband and a new project

Social media companies need to give their data to independent researchers to better understand how to keep users safe

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

Klára Dán von Neumann enters the netherworld of computer simulations and the postwar Los Alamos National Laboratory

ENIAC, an early electronic computer, gets a makeover

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

Klára Dán von Neumann arrives in Princeton, N.J., just as war breaks out in Europe

Before she entered a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons, who was Klára Dán von Neumann?

Overheating is a major problem for today’s computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing

Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction