The nature of scientific progress is that it sometimes provides powerful tools that can be wielded for good or for ill: splitting the atom and nuclear weapons being a case in point. In such cases, ...

Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI last ...

Four Northwestern Computer Science students — Nadharm Dhiantravan, Joel Goh, Marko Veljanovski, and Garrett Weil — received honorable mentions in the Computer Research Association (CRA) 2023-2024 ...

Elon Musk has long touted the potential for brain computer-interfaces (BCIs) to give humans the ability to control machines with their minds. But communication is a two-way street. What happens when ...

The 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms awarded its 2021 Test-of-Time Award to Sorin Istrail, professor of computational and mathematical sciences and professor of computer science, and his ...

Four Northwestern Computer Science students — Brian Chen, Kevin Hayes, Sean Rhee, and Marko Veljanovski — received honorable mentions in the Computer Research Association (CRA) 2024-2025 Outstanding ...

Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...