The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen for designing the cryptographic system that protects the security of electronic devices and digital connections worldwide
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For quantum computers to function, they must be kept at extremely low temperatures. However, today’s cooling systems also generate noise that interferes with the fragile quantum information they are meant to protect. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an entirely new type of minimal quantum "refrigerator", which is partly driven by the noise itself. This refrigerator enables very precise control over heat and energy flows and could play an important role in scaling up quantum technology.
Why do some groups get smarter together while others collapse into groupthink? New research from University of Pennsylvania theoretical biologist Joshua Plotkin and collaborators show that collective intelligence doesn’t emerge by rewarding the most accurate individuals but by rewarding those who improve the group’s prediction as a whole.
A development at Stanford turns qubits, quantum bits of information, stored in atoms into light, and for the first time, collects that information using one photon for each atom simultaneously. This “parallel interface” makes it possible to get information out of the quantum computer quickly and could be scaled up to create networked quantum supercomputers.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is proud to announce that Prof. Guy Kindler, Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded the Michael and Sheila Held Prize by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). This $100,000 prize is one of the most prestigious honors in computer science and discrete mathematics, presented annually to recognize outstanding, innovative, and influential research in combinatorial and discrete optimization and complexity theory.
A new paper in Biology Methods and Protocols indicates that a new computational method may help researchers identify effective precision treatments for cancer more quickly and efficiently.
FAU will become Florida’s first university to publicly host a large, onsite quantum computer. Through a partnership with D-Wave, FAU will install the advanced Advantage2 system on its Boca Raton campus, accelerating breakthrough research, hands-on student training, and real-world applications. This milestone positions FAU as a hub for quantum education and innovation while strengthening Florida’s leadership in next-generation computing.