Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness
Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation.
Source: arstechnica.com
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Can you solve it? The magical maths that keeps your data safe
How to protect machines against random failures
Source: theguardian.com
AI chatbots can be tricked into misbehaving. Can scientists stop it?
To develop better safeguards, computer scientists are studying how people have manipulated generative AI chatbots into answering harmful questions.
Source: sciencenews.org
'A game changer': Campus Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing receives $25M gift
Simons Foundation International gifted campus’s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing $25 million and pledged to match an additional $25 million to fund research in theoretical computing.
Source: dailycal.org
Four New Faculty Members Represent a 'New Wave' of Computational Thinking in Math
Four new assistant professors in the Duke Department of Mathematics represent a great stride toward the future of math, Department Chair and Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics Robert Bryant says. “For all four of these new people, computation has fundamentally changed their approach to problems,” he says. “They are exploring areas that were simply out of reach in the past.”
Source: duke.edu