One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Theoretical computer scientists are always probing the relationship of space (memory) and time. For 50 years, experts knew that a calculation of X steps required X/log X memory slots, but a new study ...

In the endless chess game of cybersecurity, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to thinks a few moves ahead, with a new program that will search for revolutionary ways to deal with ...