New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

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For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical ...