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Lauter spoke about how cryptography will have to change in the advent of quantum computing, and how mathematics will yet again provide both the tools and the weapons in battle to protect information.

In what was one of the most viral episodes of 2017, political science Professor Robert E Kelly was live on BBC World News talking about the South Korean president being forced out of office when…

Ravindran Kannan was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (opens in new tab)—one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious honorary societies, which includes scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and…

Microsoft is also leading the way on securing the DNA data it gathers. At the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual conference, Kristin Lauter, who heads up Microsoft’s cryptography research, discussed an…

Quantum computers potentially offer a faster way to calculate chemical properties, but the exact implications of this speed-up have only become clear over the last year.

Jeannette Wing received the Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Service Award (opens in new tab) for helping the computing community articulate the promise of computation to broad audiences. She positioned the field to communicate the…

Rick Rashid and Avie Tevanian received the Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award for the design and engineering of the Mach operating system, whose innovative approaches to virtual memory management and microkernel architecture established…

In case you missed it, today is tax day. This year we thought we’d look at several years of Bing data to see if we can learn anything about when people start preparing their taxes.…

Imagine you own a restaurant in a city (any city but not Seattle*). From inside the restaurant there’s no way to see the outside. You come up with a marketing plan that if it rains,…