In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on ...

In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

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Is it any wonder that growth in the number of software developer positions is expected to increase 25% in the next ten years and that Baron's magazine recently identified ... The Master of Science in ...

In philosophy, an “existential crisis” refers to a state of questioning one’s purpose, meaning, and place in the world. This ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

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