The course introduces basic data structures and algorithmic techniques that allow students to solve computational problems on the most important data types, such as sequences, sets, trees, and graphs.

Pope Leo XIV warned that the use of new technology in modern warfare risks plunging humanity into a "spiral of annihilation" and condemned increased investment in weapons worldwide before students and ...

“Algospeak” capitalizes on our desire for attention and status. We should turn to God for both. I’ll typically start formulating ideas around 7 a.m. Thanks to a steady stream of information from my ...

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to computer vision. Major topics include image processing, detection and recognition, geometry-based and physics-based vision and video analysis.

We can’t outpace the adversary by trying to stop every attack, but we can outlast them by engineering systems and culture to take a punch and try to quickly rebound. If there’s one lesson from the ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Somewhere in the middle of If on a winter’s night a traveller (1979), Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923-September 19, 1985) writes something quietly profound about our relationship with words: “It is ...

Algorithms, examples and tests for denoising, deblurring, zooming, dequantization and compressive imaging with total variation (TV) and second-order total generalized variation (TGV) regularization.

Some algorithms are more efficient than others. We would prefer to chose an efficient algorithm, so it would be nice to have metrics for comparing algorithm efficiency. The complexity of an algorithm ...

Psychological testing has come a long way from Freud’s theories of the unconscious to today’s AI-powered assessments and biometric sensors. What began as a search to understand the mind has evolved ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

The artist’s genius stems in part from his radical willingness to let the studio be a safe place for stupidity. Still from Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, Episode 1: A Natural History of the Studio, ...