On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a patent on a method of detecting credit card fraud. The result was unsurprising, but the court broke new ground with ...

MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat ...

Expand the application of computing and computational thinking at an R1 flagship technological university where STEM research is at the heart of everything we do. Learn from caring and skilled faculty ...

The numbers are in. Apparently, when it comes to numbers, our students don’t fare so well. No matter how bad you are at math, a ranking of 24th out of 29 countries should compute as a poor performance ...

Understand the mathematical foundations of the structures and processes in today's society. The degree is designed both for mathematicians who wish to make themselves more marketable by adding ...

Is it possible to orbit a data center? Elon Musk has contended that it can, and the arithmetic is simple. In a memo to his staff, he explained that the fundamental math of the “basic math” is SpaceX ...

On a recent train trip from Lyon to Paris, Vladimir Voevodsky sat next to Steve Awodey and tried to convince him to change the way he does mathematics. Voevodsky, 48, is a permanent faculty member at ...