Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe ...

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A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer simulation, arguing that the energy required to run such a program would ...

Is your life really your life, or is it actually the dream of a butterfly? Or is it a complex computer simulation indistinguishable from “real” reality? Don’t worry, it’s just a glitch in the Matrix.

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 ...

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A breakthrough by UC Davis mathematicians could help scientists get three or four times the performance from supercomputers used to model protein folding, turbulence and other complex atomic-scale ...

The following sample plan of study fulfills the M.S. degree in Computational Operations Research, pending final approval from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, with an emphasis on ...