The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Baku, Azerbaijan, a city known as a cultural and historical crossroads, became the stage for a very different kind of history this September. At the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest ...

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