Physicists and computer scientists have recently expanded the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers ...

Ashutosh Trivedi is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His researchinterests lie at the intersection of computer science, control theory, and machine ...

Our newsroom has a good number of humanities concentrators. Writing for fun? Interviewing strangers? Debating whether split infinitives are egregious grammatical errors or a valid style choice? The ...

Transformational technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning profoundly impact the legal landscape, both in terms of how computation is changing legal systems and law practice and ...

Northwestern CS had a strong presence at the Twenty-Third Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'22), held July 11-15 at the University of Colorado ...

Faculty members in the department are actively engaged in research in the areas listed below. There are many opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to participate in these ...

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...

Computing is part of everything we do. Computing drives innovation in engineering, business, entertainment, education, and the sciences—and it provides solutions to complex, challenging problems of ...