Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...

Featuring Paul Leonardi, Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Tsedal Neeley, Professor at Harvard Business School. Complimentary HBR Webinar Thursday, ...

The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon us, and we are at a turning point. The proliferation of fast-moving technologies, including forms of artificial intelligence, will cause us to confront profound ...

Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone. Good code has both substance and ...