Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Mathematical programming with vanishing constraints (MPVC) represents a challenging class of optimisation problems where certain constraints become inactive—or “vanish”—depending on specific ...

Join the Heriot-Watt Programming Competition, organised by the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, and put your ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is probably the most prestigious competition for preuniversity students. Every year students from around the world compete for its coveted bronze, silver ...

OpenAI Group PBC today launched GPT-5.2, its newest and most capable large language model. The LLM is available in three versions: Instant, Thinking and Pro. OpenAI says that the latter two editions ...