Modeling and creating simulations are key skills in any math, science or engineering profession. That’s why we’ve created a unique, interdisciplinary computational science minor. This minor gives ...

Physicists and computer scientists have recently expanded the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers ...

Computational thinking is increasingly recognised as a fundamental approach to problem solving that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It involves organising complex challenges into ...

In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

Overview The 2026 global rankings highlight universities excelling in AI, cybersecurity, and sustainable computing education, ...

Sachdeva’s breakthrough challenges one of the most studied problems in computer science, known as maximum flow, which ...

Avi Wigderson is the first recipient of both a Turing Award and an Abel Prize, math's top honor. Andrea Kane / Institute for Advanced Study The 2023 Turing Award—the computing world’s Nobel Prize ...

We accept students from a range of academic backgrounds, including linguistics, computer science, mathematics, and fields outside these. To be a strong candidate for admission: Applicants who are ...

Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings ...

Many fields of science have a foundational document: Isaac Newton’s Principia for the physics of classical mechanics, for example, or Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species for evolutionary biology ...

Some teachers say school districts should view computer science not simply as a precursor to specific college degrees, but as ...

Outgoing Northwestern Computer Science PhD students Chenkai Weng and Peng Kang and postdoctoral fellows Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Eric Evert, Yiding Feng, Suprovat Ghoshal, Saurabh ...