The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in ...

McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

Several winners at the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina have had their medals fall apart due to a faulty mechanism. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...

Richard Stursberg has some ideas. In his new book, “Lament for a Literature,” the former CBC executive and long-time CanCon booster tells the story of what he calls “the collapse of Canadian book ...

Abstract: With increasing complex workflow application and computational resources requirement, distributed computing has attracted growing attention. Meanwhile, cloud computing has emerged as a ...

Abstract: This article proposes a distributed time-varying optimization approach to address the dynamic resource allocation problem, leveraging a sliding mode technique. The algorithm integrates a ...