Northwestern Engineering’s Samir Khuller welcomed the presenters and guests of part two of the Undergraduate Research Showcase by discussing the importance of academic curiosity. “Knowledge is not a ...

Robert Hazen and Michael Wong discuss their bold proposal for a new law of nature, centered around the idea that information is as fundamental to the cosmos as mass, energy or charge. Most organic ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

A simple version of a Petri net for COVID infection. The starting point is a non-infected person. “S” denotes “susceptible”. Contact with an infected person (“I”) is an event which leads to two ...

A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...