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 ...

This course gives an introduction to the mathematical foundations of computation. The course will look at Turing machines, universal computation, the Church-Turing thesis, the halting problem and ...

Ashutosh Trivedi is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His researchinterests lie at the intersection of computer science, control theory, and machine ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

Theory, computation, and simulation are foundational to modern energy research. Theoretical understanding reveals why materials and systems behave as they do, predicting performance before experiments ...

(Sergey Tsvirov/500px/Getty Images) It's hard to imagine a system of physics simpler than a billiard table. Send a ball across the table, and its path follows a simple rule: It travels in a straight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

Computability theory establishes which problems can in principle be solved by mechanical procedures, formalised by the Turing machine model and its equivalents. It draws a firm boundary between ...

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"Many computational machines, when viewed as dynamical systems, have this property where if you jump from one state to another you really can't go back to the original state in just one step," says ...