Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. Back in 2012, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on facial recognition and privacy, then-Senator ...

Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. I suggested in a prior piece on Facebook and privacy that Facebook’s idea of privacy demonstrated a ...

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...