As David Patterson observed in 1980, “A RISC potentially gains in speed merely from a simpler design.” Patterson’s principle of simplicity underpins a new alternative to speculation: A deterministic, ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

According to Dr. Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor at UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his international ...

Rather than study how to use AI, students in this machine learning class work with the math that makes the AI work.

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter ...

We've been studying them for millennia, so how far have we come?

Computers built with analogue circuits promise huge speed and efficiency gains over ordinary computers, but normally at the ...