Computer Science

An experimental social media platform where only AI bots can post reveals surprising lessons about artificial intelligence behaviour and safety

We now carry computers in our pockets, but in 1955, the University of Melbourne became home to the two-tonne CSIRAC computer. Our picture gallery celebrates 70 years of Australia’s first university computing department

‘Minimum obstacle skeletons’ could be used to optimise mass telecommunications and transport networks. But first, we need to solve a puzzle

To celebrate the Year of Quantum, a physicist explains why this ‘spooky’ science is destined to become even more important in every area of our lives

Pioneering 95-year-old Australian mathematician and statistician Alison Harcourt AO has made a big impact on her field, and on her colleagues

A major obstacle to quantum computing has been overcome by modifying a common industrial method to create large arrays of single atoms in a silicon chip

In times of remote communication and notorious connection problems, how do we empathise with each other through the curtain of technology when non-verbal cues are missing?

It took a mob to attack the US Capitol before then President Trump’s incitement was banned by the social media companies, but these same companies routinely censor the marginalised

Associate Professor Dunbar-Hester discusses the cultures and the communities of the digital era, with a focus on media and tech activists

Computational social science has come to the fore in the COVID-19 response, allowing policy makers to trial policies on ‘artificial societies’ and see the results – before doing it in real life