Deputy director of the School of Computing at the Australian National University, Amanda Barnard talks to Hamish Johnston about research at the interface of computational modelling, applied machine ...

Quantum computation is a promising and fruitful area of research, and impressive theoretical and experimental achievements have been reported in recent years. At the same time, many fundamental ...

What would it take to turn the entire cosmos into software-down to the rules that generate space and time? For decades, the simulation hypothesis has resided comfortably in the gap between philosophy ...

Stephen Wolfram – the physicist who created Mathematica – reflects on how this computational tool has changed in 30 years, and on the practical and conceptual role that computational thinking plays in ...