The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

DeepMind's Aletheia is a huge advance in AI-driven mathematical reasoning. It is a research agent built on top of Gemini Deep ...

Shakuntala Devi walked onto stages around the world with no calculator, no notes and no safety net. What followed left ...

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, outlining how a machine could follow instructions to perform complex operations and manipulate symbols beyond arithmetic.

Being wildlife enthusiasts and bird watchers we took a river “safari” during a recent family trip to Bentota. We were ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their ...

The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun, and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are ...

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

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

At each step, the programmer is able to see if, and how, a variable is affected. Trace tables are extremely useful because they enable a programmer to compare what the value of each variable should be ...