Meta's most-famous employee Yann LeCun who calls himself a computer science professor tells students not to study computer science and instead focus on

Yann LeCun, former Meta AI chief and Godfather of AI teaches computer science at New York University (NYU). During a recent ...
Ars Technica

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone ...
Quanta Magazine

Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...
Quanta Magazine

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.