There’s an old puzzle that requires the solver to form as many whole numbers as possible, starting with 1, using only the digit 4 exactly four times, together with ordinary arithmetic and algebraic ...

Speaking to a large crowd in McCosh 50 yesterday evening, Stephen Wolfram, creator of the popular computer program Mathematica, said that all of nature can be modeled by computer programs based on one ...

In 1956, John McCarthy, an American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, called for research on "Automata Studies". But few people understood what he meant, so he came up with another phrase for ...