A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory. During his acceptance lecture, at an ...

Information theory addresses the fundamental mathematical limits of communication (error correction), compression, and security, built upon probability theory. This ...

With the help of a new experiment, researchers have succeeded in confirming a ten-year-old theoretical study, which connects one of the most fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics -- the ...

For decades, physicists have faced one of science’s greatest puzzles: merging quantum mechanics, which describes tiny particles, with general relativity, which explains the universe’s vast structures.