You're catching up on some emails. Verifying your identity with a passport picture. Paying an invoice with your bank details. In the background, a "bad actor" is collecting all of your encrypted ...

Sophie Huiberts is a Junior Fellow with the Simons Society of Fellows. From search engines to traffic signals, computer algorithms are a central part of our daily lives. Some algorithms, such as those ...

Since the very first days of computer science — a field known for its methodical approach to problem-solving — randomness has played an important role. The first program to run on the world’s first ...