Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

This course gives an introduction to the mathematical foundations of computation. The course will look at Turing machines, universal computation, the Church-Turing thesis, the halting problem and ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Four decades ago at Endicott House, an MIT professor convened a conference that launched quantum computing. Quantum computing as we know it got its start 40 years ago this spring at the first Physics ...

Multiparty computation (MPC) is a type of cryptographic protocol that allows multiple parties to jointly compute a function over their inputs without revealing those inputs to each other. MPC can be ...

The evolutionary biologist Jessica Flack seeks the computational rules that groups of organisms use to solve problems. There are many patterns of collective behavior in biology that are easy to see ...

Quantum computers process information stored within quantum mechanical systems, encoding the information in qubits, or quantum bits. Unlike classical bits, qubits can be in a combination of being in 0 ...