Approaching limitations of digital computing technologies have spurred research in
neuromorphic and other unconventional approaches to computing. Here we argue that if we …

The rationality principle postulates that decision-makers always choose the best action
available to them. It underlies most modern theories of decision-making. The principle does …

Over its short disciplinary history, computing has seen a stunning number of descriptions of
the field's characteristic ways of thinking and practicing, under a large number of different …

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual
design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our …

The status of the P versus NP problem Page 1 78 commuNicaTioNS of The acm |
SePteMber 2009 | voL. 52 | No. 9 review articles Doi:10.1145/1562164.1562186 It’s one of …

The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which
philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as …

Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of
computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes …

Quantum computation, one of the latest joint ventures between physics and the theory of
computation, is a scientific field whose main goals include the development of hardware and …

Computational complexity theory is a subfield of theoretical computer science one of whose
primary goals is to classify and compare the practical difficulty of solving problems about …

There are many ways of understanding the nature of philosophical questions. One may
consider their morphology, semantics, relevance, or scope. This article introduces a different …