Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. Back in 2012, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on facial recognition and privacy, then-Senator ...

The fields of communication complexity and information theory form an interrelated domain that investigates the fundamental limits and efficiencies of distributed computation and data transmission.

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. By some accounts, the western world is experiencing a backlash against the same technologies which have ...

Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...